[Video] Q12: According to the passage, members of which group moved away from central-city areas in large numbers in the early 2000s?

Explanation for Question 12 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 12 says according to the passage members of which group moved away from 2 central city areas in large numbers in the early two thousands. 3 So since this paragraph starts off with the phrase, 4 according to the passage, we know that the answer is going to come directly 5 from text evidence. So let's look back in the passage and see what it 6 has to say about this. So if we 7 look in that opening paragraph to the passage, 8 it says a closer look at the results shows that the most powerful demographic 9 events of the past decade, where the movement of African-Americans out of central cities 10 and the settlement of immigrant groups in suburbs, 11 often ones, miles, many miles distant from downtown. 12 So this pretty clearly indicates that the answer to question 13 12 is D African-Americans because that 14 passage sentence that we just read described the 15 greatest, most effective demographic events as a movement of African-Americans 16 out of central cities, what the paragraph is or what the is focusing on. 17 That's those central cities saying that 180,000 of them moved out of Chicago 18 alone. So that's why D is going to be correct. 19 If we look at some of the other answer choices, it would be, 20 or answer choice B would probably be a good distractor answer choice because it 21 mentions immigrant groups in the same sentence. 22 However, it says that immigrant groups, 23 it doesn't designate immigrant groups as moving out of the central city areas directly. 24 It s...