Free College Board preptest: section 8, #8. Please help!

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<p>This question from the free College Board test doesn’t make any sense to me. The answer is B, but I don’t get it. Wouldn’t the answer be:
12 x 500 = 6,000
15 x 1,000 = 15,000
20 x 1,250 = 250,000
Total = 271,000</p>

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<p>In 2000, there were 12 rentals on average for each of the 500 members. 12 x 500 = 6000
In 2001, there were 15 rentals on average for each of the 1000 members. 15 x 1000 = 15000
In 2002, there were 20 rentals on average for each of the 1250 members. 20 x 1250 = 25000</p>

<p>6000 + 15000 + 25000 = 46000 (B).</p>

<p>You can’t just add up the number of premium members and multiply that by the total number of rentals on average b/c there were different numbers of premium members each year renting different numbers of videos.</p>

<p>EDIT: lol you would have gotten the right answer if you multiplied correctly. 20 x 1250 is twenty-five thousand, not two hundred-fifty thousand… so my explanation was not at all needed.</p>

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<p>Thanks. What an amateurish mistake on my part…</p>

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<p>Haha it’s good you’ve realized how important it is to check your math right now…
just imagine if you did that on the real SATs ;)</p>