[Video] Q21: Chart 2 suggests which of the following about population change in the 1990s?

Explanation for Question 21 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 21 says chart to suggest which of the following about population change in 2 the 1990s. So let's just go through each of these answer choices and see 3 if we can prove it to you based on the figure. So answer choice 4 a says that large numbers of people moved from suburban areas to urban areas 5 in the 1990s. So let's look back at the chart. 6 Number two. So chart two is showing us 7 growth rates by Metro size, 8 and it gives us a bunch of different years and a bunch of different 9 growth rates. However, it's, 10 doesn't say anything about direction of migration. 11 So whether it's from suburban to urban, whether it's from urban to suburban or 12 urban to rural things like that. So you can't infer answer choice a based 13 on this figure, even though you might be able to say, 14 oh, the growth rate changed in the small Metro, 15 it decreased and it changed in the large Metro. 16 It increased again, you can't infer directly from this 17 figure, whether people are moving from suburban to urban or the other way around. 18 So answer choice a would be incorrect for that reason. 19 If we look at answer choice B, it says growth rates fell in smaller 20 metropolitan areas in the 1990s. 21 So let's go back and see if that answer choices true. 22 So we have in the 23 1990s, so 1990 to 2000, we have these small metropolitan growth rate as 13.1. 24 And we have the large metropolitan growth rate as 14.3. 25 But what we want to compare here is from 1980s 26 to 1990s, and you can se...