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SAT Reading: Passage Comparison Drill 3, Problem 3

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00:03

Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Alexander Graham Bell. This guy phoned

00:08

home even before ET.

00:21

The first passage differs from the second in that it contains more...what?

00:30

To summarize the main points of the two passages, Passage 1 is all about the historical background

00:35

of telephones, and Passage 2 is basically all about... complaining.

00:40

In order to figure out the main difference between the first passage and its grumpy counterpart,

00:44

we'll have to keep our two main ideas tattooed on our brains.

00:50

"Ambivalence" comes from the root word "ambivalent" and describes when a person

00:54

has conflicting feelings about something.

00:59

Knowing this definition, we can cross (A) off the list. Passage one doesn't seem conflicted

01:04

about telephones at all. It's just giving us the facts, and if anything is generally

01:07

positive about Bell's big invention. We can get rid of (B), too.

01:11

We remember that it's the second passage that thinks telephones are evil, not the first,

01:17

so we can say bye bye to this one. There aren't any quotes by any experts in

01:21

either passage. So choice (D) is out.

01:26

"Statistics" is the science of collecting

01:28

numerical data in order to infer proportions from a small representative sample.

01:33

We know a statistician is somewhere behind the scenes whenever we hear somebody quote

01:37

something like 75% of blah blah blah do blah blah blah.

01:42

Neither passage hits us with any kind of statistical info, though, so there's a 0% chance that

01:48

(E) is the right answer.

01:50

And then there's option C... The first passage is indeed filled with historical dates and

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info, while the second passage has none of that stuff.

02:04

Choice (C) checks out with us...and with our brain tattoo.

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