Explanation for Question 9 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
So question nine says at this point, 2 the writer wants to use information from the table below, 3 and then it gives a table labeled economic contributions of tourists to the region 4 of Yellowstone national park. So we see that they're measuring 5 for the amount of park visitors, 6 the park visitor spending, and the jobs created. 7 And they're going to calculate that for the total, then from tourists and then 8 percent from tourists. So they're going to take a percentage, 9 but they're going to look at it in a percentage, um, 10 standpoint. The question says what choice provides accurate and 11 relevant? That's key right there. It has to be accurate. 12 So it has to be correct, but it also has to be relevant and 13 it has to make sense in the passage. So what's choice, 14 brides, accurate and relevant evidence from the table to support the paragraphs claim. 15 The paragraph that we just read that, 16 um, dealt with questions 6, 7, 8, 17 and nine is the one that's talking about. 18 Um, jobs created when we have federally protected 19 land and part of that being due to the increase 20 of money due to tourist spending in those lands. 21 So knowing that we have to choose an answer choice that's related to that 22 relevant to that, but it's still correct from the, 23 from the graph from the table. Let's look at question, 24 answer choice. A these tours made up nearly 97% 25 of all the visitors to the park in that year that isn't relevant. 26 It doesn't give us any information abo...