Explanation for Question 11 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 11 says in passage one, the authors repeat 40% in lines, 2 five and 22 to do what? So let's look back at the passage here. 3 Kind of read the sentences and get some context for how they refer to 4 this 40%. So you can see the first reference starts in line five. 5 It says currently more than 40% of our income is disposed of on our 6 behalf by government, federal, state, 7 and local levels combined. And then the second reference to this starts in nine 8 20. It says we participate in the political process that has resulted in government 9 spending an amount equal to more than 40% of our income. 10 So the two important things to note here are 11 that it's time, this 40% is referred to, 12 it's not referred to as just 40%. 13 It's referred to as more than 40%. 14 So let me underline that here we have equal to more 15 than 40% of our income. 16 The second thing that we need to note here is that each time it's 17 being talked about it's being talked about in terms of the amount of our 18 personal income that is taken up by taxes and the way that they talk 19 about this has a negative connotation, right? 20 It's the amount you're paying for taxes, but the way that they reference it 21 is that the government is spending your own money. 22 So kind of a negative viewpoint related to this 40%. 23 So let's look here at the answer choices and see if these 24 two things can help us answer question 11. 25 So answer choice. A says that the authors repeat 40% in order to emphasize 26...