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SAT Reading: Passage Comparison Drill 4, Problem 3

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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Atlantic Ocean.

00:08

Okay, read the passage, skim it, review it, love it...

00:19

It can be inferred that the women most often turned away as "LPC," as described in Passage

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2, probably fell into which of the following categories described in Passage 1?

00:35

So here are the potential answers...

00:40

To answer this question, we'll need to rely on two key facts from Passage 2.

00:43

One: First-class and second-class tickets cost money—and lots of it...

00:49

And two: "LPC" meant that the government thought the person wouldn't be able to support herself

00:54

financially.

00:56

Put those facts together, and we know we're looking for the class of passenger mentioned

01:00

in Passage 1, who didn't have the cash for an upper class sea voyage.

01:04

Could choice (A) be our answer?

01:06

Nope, we just said that the first and second class passengers are too rich for our taste,

01:11

so we can eliminate (A).

01:14

Choice (B) is wrong for the same reason. If a person had the money for a first or second

01:19

class ticket, then the chances were high they wouldn't be labeled "LPC."

01:23

If "the vast majority of immigrants" were all labeled "LPC," then hardly anybody

01:28

would've gotten into the country back in the day.

01:30

This was not the case, however, as both passages tell us

01:33

that tons of immigrants entered the U.S. Choice (E) is a definite no. "Legal inspectors"

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were the ones going around labeling people as "LPC," and it's pretty doubtful they

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were labeling themselves that way. Ah, at long last we've reached our destination.

01:47

It looks like (C) is the correct answer.

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Passage 2 tells us that the "'steerage' or third class passengers" were the ones with

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the least amount of money, therefore we can infer that they were most likely to be labeled

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"LPC."

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Although, we figure there must've been exceptions to the rule...

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