OChem Destroyer 2014 Question

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85. Which of the following reactions would yield an alkene?

2-iodo-2-methylpropane + Ch3OH (aq) ->

I get how this would want to go through SN1 but why doesn't it go through E1? Is it because the product 2-methylpropene (isobutylene) is unstable??

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