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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 6. What comparison can be made between the minimum salary and the average salary of MLB players?
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What comparison can be made between the minimum salary and the average salary of MLB players?
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Well here are the potential answers...
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This question is asking us what we can compare
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between the minimum salary and the average salary of MLB players.
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To answer this question, we first have to figure out which graph to use.
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Well...Figure 1 compares average salary and minimum wage, whereas figure 2 compares weight and salary.
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Seems like figure 1 is more useful.
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Every year on the x-axis shows that the minimum salary is only a small fraction of the salary
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compared to the average salary. Notice the small green compared to the big tall red...
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Which leads us to our answer C.
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The average salary is much higher than the minimum salary of MLB players.
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