A device that takes the coins from the coin hopper and drops them into the drop box.

• A. Coin Hopper
• B. Coin Diverter
• C. Drop Mechanism
• D. Coin Chute

Answer: (B)

The key idea here is a directing component in coin handling. After coins sit in the hopper, a diverter is the mechanism that actively directs or diverts coins toward the drop box, effectively taking them from the hopper and placing them into the drop box for collection. The hopper is just the storage area for coins, not the part that moves them to the drop box. The drop mechanism would be the action that releases coins, but without routing from the hopper, it wouldn’t specifically move coins into the drop box. The coin chute is simply the path coins travel through, not the active device that controls their destination. So the device described is the diverter because it handles the routing from the hopper into the drop box.