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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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