[Video] Q15: Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Explanation for Question 15 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 15 says which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. And we determined that the answer to the previous question is that 3 according to the passage answer choice B 4 economic hardship due to promises made in past years describes the current financial situation 5 in many major American city. So let's look at the evidence lines provided 6 in question 15 and see which one best matches that answer choice. 7 Remember, we're looking for two aspects, economic hardship and promises from past 8 years. So let's start with answer choice a lines 36 through 39. 9 They say America's major cities, face, enormous fiscal problems. 10 Many of them, the result of public pension obligations, 11 they incurred in the more prosperous years of the past two decades. 12 So this is a promising answer choice. 13 It references both enormous fiscal problems and 14 it also references the promises made in past years 15 with the public pension obligations. 16 So the obligations being the promises and then the past two decades would be 17 the past years. Part of that. So answer choice a is really promising here, 18 but let's look at the rest of them. So if we look at answer 19 choice B, it says how the cities are going to solve this problem. 20 I do not know. So this answer choice is going to be relatively vague. 21 It does talk about a problem and that problem 22 would be money problems, 23 financial problems, fiscal problems. However, 24 it's not talking about p...