From what is known about spring tides and neap tides, you can conclude that

Spring tides occur around the new and full moons, when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned, and they produce higher high tides. Neap tides occur around the quarter moons and produce lower high tides. So the height of high tides varies with the phases of the Moon; tides do not cause those phases.

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