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Relating Information in a Table to the Rising Price of Tulips 9 Views


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Why did people in Holland pay so much for tulips? Buyers remorse must have run rampant once the flowers wilted...


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00:02

all right Shmoopers more tulipmania coming your way not in the Octagon this [tulips boxing]

00:07

time which claim in the passage is supported by the table which information [text on screen]

00:13

lines all right so we got a whole bunch of line ranges we're looking at got 11

00:17

through 14 and 16 through 19 and I'm through 20 to 30 here so we're just

00:21

gonna go one by one and kind of see where we are here well the table shows

00:25

the high value of items delivered as payment for a single tulip and

00:30

illustrates the extreme prices people were willing to pay at the height of the [hairy cow eats tulip]

00:34

bubble for a while people were willing to pay whatever price was asked this [text on screen]

00:40

table really only has one data point it shows the extreme high end of the

00:45

prices but it doesn't contain enough information to show any fluctuation in

00:50

prices so it can't be a it doesn't show the aftermath when the bubble burst so

00:55

it can't be see and it doesn't suggest why the bubble burst so it can't be d

01:00

you know like mama shmup climbing Mount Everest this table is all about peak so [woman climbing mountain]

01:06

the answer is B it's right there line 16 through 19 you know everyone blah blah [text on screen]

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blah blah blah blah blah for them that's it

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