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Command of Evidence SAT question
Reading and Writing · Information and Ideas · Hard · Answer it here, explanation included.
- For each data category, the following bars are shown:
- announcement before election
- announcement after election
- The data for the 3 categories are as follows:
- no response:
- announcement before election: 1,252
- announcement after election: 1,248
- responded to inquiry:
- announcement before election: 207
- announcement after election: 205
- offered incentive:
- announcement before election: 128
- announcement after election: 122
- no response:
In the United States, firms often seek incentives from municipal governments to expand to those municipalities. A team of political scientists hypothesized that municipalities are much more likely to respond to firms and offer incentives if expansions can be announced in time to benefit local elected officials than if they can’t. The team contacted officials in thousands of municipalities, inquiring about incentives for a firm looking to expand and indicating that the firm would announce its expansion on a date either just before or just after the next election.
Which choice best describes data from the graph that weaken the team’s hypothesis?
ExplanationShow
Choice B is the best answer. The lighter bars show what happened when the announcement was to come before the election, and the darker bars show what happened when the announcement was to come after the election. For all three of the outcomes, the light and dark bars are virtually the same, demonstrating that the announcement timing didn’t actually make a difference.
Choice A is incorrect. This accurately describes some data from the graph, but it doesn’t weaken the hypothesis. It doesn’t include the “announcement after election” data for comparison. Choice C is incorrect. This accurately describes some data from the graph, but it doesn’t weaken the hypothesis. It doesn’t include the “announcement after election” data for comparison. Choice D is incorrect. This accurately describes some data from the graph, but it doesn’t weaken the hypothesis. It doesn’t include the “announcement before election” data for comparison.
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