Answer Choices
The country with the greatest growth in output per manufacturing worker from 1960 to 1990 was Germany.
Japan experienced its smallest increase in output per manufacturing worker from 2000 to 2011.
Each of the three countries experienced an increase in its output per manufacturing worker from 1960 to 2011.
Of the three countries, the United States had the greatest output per manufacturing worker for each of the years shown.
Explanation for Question 20 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
Question 20 asks, which statement is supported by figure two. 2 So we'll just go through each of these answer choices individually and evaluate them 3 in terms of what the figure is telling us and see if we can 4 find the one that is supported. 5 So we'll start with the answer choice. A, it says the country with the 6 greatest growth in output per manufacturing worker from 1960 to 1990 was Germany. 7 So if we look back at figure two, 8 here, we can see that Germany is going to be the darkest color here. 9 And we're looking from 60 to 90. 10 So all of those years in between, and we can see that Germany is 11 the highest in the sixties, seventies, and eighties, 12 but in the nineties, they get surpassed by Japan. 13 You can see Japan is at a higher level than Germany. 14 So answer choice a would be incorrect here because Germany does not have the 15 highest output per worker for that entire time period. 16 So a would be incorrect and we'll start looking at B. 17 It says Japan experienced its smallest increase in output per manufacturing worker 18 from 2000 to 2011. 19 So if we go back up here and look, 20 we can see that Japan is this medium color. 21 We're looking from 2000 to 2011, 22 and we can see that the increase in output is almost near 23 50% or 50%. 24 And oops, you can't see that I'm going to light. Okay. 25 So if you look at some of the other years, 26 comparatively, you can see that there was a smaller increase 27 here to here, right? That's going to be a little bit...