[Video] Q18: Which choice best supports the conclusion that public transportation is compatible with the use of personal electronic devices?

Explanation for Question 18 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 18 says as used in 9 68, 2 conducted as closest in meaning to what? 3 So let's look back in the passage and see if we can get some 4 context here. If we look at the sentence 5 where this word is used, it's talking about downtown. 6 It says virtually every city in the country, how to downtown, 7 where the commercial life of the metropolis was conducted. 8 So we can take this word conducted and we can think of in 9 our own vocabulary words that we might be able to replace and still maintain 10 the meaning of the sentence here. So when I read this, 11 the first thing that comes to my mind is it is where the commercial 12 life of the metropolis happened or occurred. 13 So let's look back at the answer choices and see which one best 14 matches happened, occurred conducted. 15 So if we look at answer choice, 16 a it's says carried out. So answer choice a might be promising here. 17 If downtown is the place where commercial life is carried out, 18 that would make sense. If we look at answer choice B, 19 it says supervised. So if you were to substitute this in for conducted, 20 it would change the meaning of the sentence. It would mean that commercial life 21 is happening and there's some entity supervising, 22 looking down, regulating or controlling it. So answer choice B would be incorrect 23 just because it changes the meaning of the sentence here. If we look at 24 answer choice C if we were to replace conducted with regulated again, 25 that would be incorrect, just like ...