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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?
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- 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.
- 01:21
Both the average wage and the minimum wage increase over time.
- 01:25
And good thing, too. Considering how bad inflation is.
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