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PSAT 3.4 Reading Diagnostic. What main idea in the essay is confirmed by both tables?
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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by factory lunch cars You can really taste the motor
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oil and that turkey club All right check out the
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passage about food in a restaurant In response Us who'll
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back in charge of numbers All these citations as during
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a diner a jar or suffocation on diner white casts
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on news updates and fast food you were picking out
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key words Here people that's how we skin and restaurant
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century are let's Move right on to the question What
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main idea in the essay is confirmed by both tables
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and hear the potential answers Yeah Lou it's picture time
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i don't even have to read the passage for this
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one just have to look over the pretty little tables
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to get our answer They could be prettier though some
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different color throwing some glitter and maybe a sparkly vote
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much better All right so we're trying to track down
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the main idea that's confirmed by both tables In other
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words we're looking for some overlap g that makes them
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hard to read so let's try it side by side
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Okay yeah this is definitely the way to go So
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we've got one table here showing us population by the
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thousands and another showing food expenditures between nineteen thirty five
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and nineteen ninety five okay so this doesn't take into
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account our latest trip that costco and where we spent
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a fortune but yeah all right the first thing we
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should notices that the dates line up more or less
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so we're talking about the same period of time Any
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trends weaken spot well in the first table the rural
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population doesn't change much but the urban population is going
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up by leaps and bounds every decade Then in the
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second table that percent of disposable personal income is trending
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downward but not dramatically However the percent spent away from
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the home is rocketing upward from thirteen point four to
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thirty eight point two percent over the span of sixty
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years the body's in cities going up and that's reflected
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an increase in dining out Any of our fine answer
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choices support such a correlation Well there's a the end
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of world war two saw an increase in industrialization which
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is true but about as relevant as our nephews like
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one sixty six Sorry we just really like to brag
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about this sense doesn't seem to align with the data
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and the tables so we're going to go ahead Nicks
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eh Then there's be lower costs led to a revolution
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in restaurant dining Also no mention in the table's about
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how much food costs For all we know a jar
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of peanut butter went for thirty five bucks which would
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make nutter butters and delicacy so no can't be option
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b c The divide between urban rural regions grew due
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to increase jobs in the cities Well this one starts
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out looking really good since there is an indication in
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the first table that urban population grew much faster event
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rural population but there's no connection drawn in the second
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table between that and an increase in jobs And yes
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sorry to burst your bubble But professional pizza eater is
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not a thing so we're still on the lookout for
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something more food related than job related and we get
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it Once we happen upon option d there is a
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correlation between urbanization and an increase in restaurant patronage There
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we go that's exactly the connection we came up with
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from the get go As urban population grows so does
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the number of people who are getting out of the
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kitchen I guess they couldn't stand the heat here Nice
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