[Video] Q17: Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

Explanation for Question 17 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 17 says which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. And we determined that the answers to the previous question is that 3 the passage applies in American cities in 1974, 4 had a traditional four zone structure. 5 So let's look at the lines of evidence given to us in 17 and 6 see which one best supports. 7 So the traditional four zone structure. So if we look at answer choice 8 a, it says much of our perspective on the process of metropolitan settlement dates, 9 whether we realize it or not from a paper written in 1925 by the 10 university of Chicago sociologist, Ernest w Burgess. 11 So answer choice a is going to 12 be incorrect because it says, 13 it talks about structure in metropolitan areas, 14 right? Metropolitan settlement. 15 But it doesn't say anything specifically about a four zone structure or American cities. 16 So that's why AI is incorrect. 17 If we look at B, it says it was Burgess who defined our four 18 urban suburban zones of settlement. So this answer choice specifically mentioned the 19 four zone structure. So we'll keep B for the time being, 20 it might be a good answer here. If we look at answer choice C 21 it says virtually every city in the country had a downtown where the commercial 22 life of the metropolis was conducted at had a factory district just beyond. 23 It had districts of working class residences, just beyond that. 24 And it had a residential suburbs for the wealthy and the upper middle class 2...