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PSAT 1.4 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following conclusions is supported by the data in the graph?


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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by south africa There are actually not

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as many superheroes living in cape town as you might

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expect Night Check up grab here Which of the following

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conclusions is supported by the data in the graph And

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here the potential answers So what's it asking Well we've

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got four possible conclusions over here but only one of

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them is backed up by the information we've been giving

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The other three can take a flying leap for a

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weekend made up The trick is to figure out which

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three are trying to pull a fast one on us

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let's take them one at a time and see if

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we're buying what they're selling Option b says that as

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chlorophyll increases sea surface temperature increases because they are positively

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correlated That is totally correct on opposite day according to

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the graph As chlorophyll concentration increases sea surface temperature decreases

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that's why is the line moves from left to right

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These numbers here are getting bigger while these were getting

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smaller not unlike our pool of possible answer choices these

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out of here What about c Which suggests that if

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chlorophyll concentration is zero than the sea surface temperature is

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approximately twelve degrees centigrade All right well let's take our

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little finger Actually Any of them will do and find

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the point of the graph at which the concentration of

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chlorophyll is zero right here Looks like that line of

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best fit is hovering A bit over the sixteen degree

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mark which unless mathematicians recently switched it up on us

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is not the same as twelve degrees but we can

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reduce our concentration on choiceseat zero next up is option

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d if the sea surface temperature is less than fourteen

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degrees centigrade the chlorophyll concentration is less than ten well

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here's the part of the graph represented by everything under

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fourteen degrees and if we're to extend our line of

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best bit out of ways we'd see that everywhere it

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falls inside the shaded area the chlorophyll concentration is more

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than ten not less so this option is a shady

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is so new graph will next d answer is the

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right choice If the sea surface temperature is fifteen degrees

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centigrade or phil concentration is likely to be between eight

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point zero and eight point five Yeah here's fifteen degrees

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right along this axis and if we go straight across

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to the line of best fit yet that totally falls

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somewhere between a chlorophyll concentration of between eight and eight

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point five we're really glad we got the right answer

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but we're going to take a break now and lie

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down for a bit Some reason we're seeing dot home

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