[Video] Q16: As used in line 58, “credit” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 16 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 16 says is youth in line 58 credit? 2 Most nearly means what? So let's look back in the passage at the lines. 3 This is referencing. So it starts in 4 the sentence starts in line 58. It says if you credit the demographers, 5 this transit trend has legs. So transit trend being that, 6 just the use of public transportation in general, 7 and then the rest of this paragraph goes on to talk about how the 8 millennials, so the new generation is more conducive and more willing to use 9 public transportation because of they're not adversion 10 to technology. So let's look at the answer choices 11 and see which one would best maintain the meaning of the sentence. 12 So if you look at answer choice, a, it says to endow, 13 so in doubt means to like give or grant or something like that. 14 So if we replaced that into the sentence, 15 it would say, if you endow, 16 if you grant the demographers, which doesn't make sense because you would have to 17 grant them or endow them with something here, 18 it's just saying, if you credit the demographers. 19 So, and Dan would be incorrect because it just doesn't work grammatically 20 and therefore would make the sentence not make sense. 21 If we look at B it's much the same kind of situation, 22 if you have attribute. So if you attribute the demographers, 23 you have to attribute something to demographers. 24 So like you can attribute, 25 I don't know, intelligence to the demographers or something like that, 26 but you're not just going t...