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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. What do the statistics in Figure 1 suggest?

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00:03

A little birdie told us you wanted a shmoopy problem to solve... and we shall provide.

00:08

Included below in Figure 1 are some salary statistics by year from Major League Baseball.

00:14

Figure 1 suggests that... what?

00:18

And here's some potential answers...

00:23

What is the question asking?

00:24

Basically, it just wants to know if we can interpret what it means when those bars in

00:28

the graph keep getting bigger and bigger...

00:31

Okay, so based on the graph, what do we know about the average player

00:35

salaries and the minimum wage?

00:37

Are they increasing, decreasing, or staying the same?

00:40

Well, they're definitely not staying the same. Otherwise, all of the bars would be

00:43

the same height.

00:45

The bars are getting taller year after year, so we can cross off option D.

00:49

Now let's check out the legend, or key of the graph.

00:53

The red parts of the bars indicate the average salary, and the green is the minimum wage

00:58

for the MLB. Very festive. Focus on the tiny green part on the bottom

01:02

of the graph... is it changing over time?

01:04

It sure is. It's getting higher... so we can get rid of option A that says only the

01:09

AVERAGE wage is getting higher, not the minimum wage.

01:12

Next, the red part of the graph. Is it getting higher over time?

01:17

Yup, the red part is definitely increasing. So option B is our answer.

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Both the average wage and the minimum wage increase over time.

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And good thing, too. Considering how bad inflation is.

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