Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 17 says, according to the passage, 2 reducing commuting time for drivers can have which of the following effects. 3 So since the question starts with, according to the passage, 4 we know the answer is going to come directly from text evidence. 5 So let's see what the passage has to say about drivers response to 6 commuting time starting in line 45. 7 It says, if you cut commuting time by 10% people who now drive 50 8 miles, each way to work can justify moving five miles farther out because their 9 travel time won't change. This is how much are Politan areas. 10 Metastasize. So basically what this is saying is that you're cutting commuting time. 11 So people can justify moving farther away from their jobs. 12 And this is the Suburbans for all that they're talking about in line 20. 13 So if we go back and look at the answer choices, 14 they give us for 17, we have a, 15 that drivers become more productive employees than they previously were. 16 So this isn't talking about drivers moving further. 17 This is just talking about how they're doing at their jobs, 18 which those lines don't tell us anything about. So it would be incorrect for 19 that reason. If we look at B, it says mass transit gets extended farther 20 into suburban areas than it previously was the lines that we looked at. 21 Didn't say anything about mass transit. 22 It just said that people can justify moving farther. 23 And also these people are drivers. So mass transit wouldn't be necessary to accommodat...