What is the predicted product of the reaction shown?

Question

The answer is not I

Answer 1

My first instinct is answer I, which you indicate is incorrect. To put it bluntly without much thorough reasoning, the only other possible answer choice is III . III is the only other answer which has 6 carbons, the same amount of carbons as the reactants contain that must be conserved.

Apologies for the lack of reasoning beyond that, but this is the most streamlined approach available knowing I is incorrect according to your homework's software.