单选题 Which of the following determined what percentage of the construction costs each member of the consortium would pay?

A、 How much oil field land each company owned?
B、 How long each company had owned land in the oil fields?
C、 How many people worked for each company?
D、 How many oil wells were located on the company's land?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 根据第四段的“Each company controlled Oil rights to particular shares of land in the Oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings”可知，A项为正确答案。