[Video] Q13: Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Answer Choices

  • Lines 5-9 (“In . . . automobile”)

  • Lines 20-24 (“And . . . car”)

  • Lines 24-26 (“In . . . experience”)

  • Lines 32-34 (“Hopping . . . quickly”)

Explanation for Question 13 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 13 says what's choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. So paired with question 12, 3 which we determined, and you can see that in the earlier video, 4 that the correct answer to question 12 is that the author explicitly cites speed 5 as an advantage of automobile travel in north America. 6 So let's look at the lines of evidence given to us as answer choices 7 in 13 and see which one talks about the advantageous 8 nature of the speed of automobiles. So if we look at answer twist 9 a lines five through nine, 10 it says, in other words, traveling to work school or the market means being 11 a strapped finger, somebody who by choice or necessity relies on public transport rather 12 than a privately owned automobile. So if we remember question 12 said 13 explicitly, it is explicitly cited by the author that cars are faster. 14 So we can do any number, 15 any degree of inference here to figure out that cars are faster 16 than public transportation. However, 17 it has to be explicitly cited. So answer choice a doesn't explicitly say anything 18 about speed. So it's going to be incorrect. 19 If we look at answer choice B lines, 23, 24, 20 it says, and yet public transportation and in many minds is the opposite of 21 glamour, a squalid last resort, for those with one to many impaired driving charges, 22 too poor to afford insurance insurance, 23 or too decrepit to get behind the wheel of a car. So again, 24 we have no explicit or direct inf...

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