I believe it’s option number three. I’ll explain why. The first passage spoke about how Austen’s letters were prodding, boring, and uninteresting. Therefore, the lack of these letters isn’t a huge detriment. But she can take a liberal role in analyzing the text because that’s the interesting part of Jane Austen’s life. It’s a part that actually matters. Her letters weren’t revealing at all.
@eeeeeeee10 you mean option 2?
Yes thank you
I agree with @eeeeeeee10 that it is not option 1 but instead option 2. the question was asking what the guy from passage one would say. the guy from passage one specifically and directly said he thought the letters were not insightful. so it’s not option one.
if you google “jane austen” “strange silences” and click on the first link and read the passage, it literally talks about biographers. and “justify biographers’ need to interpret information liberally” makes sense because in the first passage, the guy took information from the letters and made the assumption that jane austen paid attention to trivia. that’s taking information and interpreting it liberally.
as for the choice about fiction being better than autobiographies, i wonder why that was even a choice lol.
@cityonanocean it was a choice to trick people.
I definitely thought it was option 1.
The passage is recognizing the trouble caused to biographers by the lack of knowledge on Jane Austen, and the fact that the existent letters are non-sentimental, and hence missing letters prevents us from knowing her feelings. It’s kind of hard for me to remember the passage though…
Was “explained…independent” SC on the LAST section??
For the % decrease one I am almost certain that the change was from 75 to 13, equating to an 83 percent decrease… 83% rings a bell more than 92% does for me. I remember computing 13/75 which came out to be 0.17333333 and then computing 1.00-0.1733333 which is 0.8266666 or approximately 83%.
@ekl2498 It was 92%. it was agreed upon long ago…
it was 75 to 6 by the way. And percent decrease is (6-75)/75… forget the negative sign. It comes out to 92 exactly
Just wondering… since you guys know the link to passage 2, do you also know the link to passage 1?
@EasyNotSoMuch123
I must have unfortunately misread the graph then.
Yeaa… i read it as 11 the first time
I just don’t see how I could have done that though. Do you remember any more specifics about the problem. Did it have different shapes on the graph to correspond to different years or was that a different problem? All I can remember was that it almost looked like a mirror image of an S curve.
Since some others have agreed, I’m pretty convinced it’s 92% but what is strange is that 83% was a choice. There must have been some sort of distraction . . . Sad since the concept was easy.
So thats -1 and 1 left blank for Math. Was hoping for the 800.
@ekl2498 I think you might be confused. This problem had 3 lines for 3 products i believe (A, B, C), and on each vertical line there were 3 points for 2003, 2004, and 2005. The question was something along the lines of “What is the percent difference in the production of Product C from 2005 compared to 2003?” There were 75 million units produced in 2005, while only 6 million produced in 2003. 6/75 = 8%, so the percent difference was 92%.
@holayola
among them are or among which are?
stump speeches- no error?
farmers market- no error?
im interested to see what someone who has 800d writing put for these.
Oh then I don’t know what I was thinking then. Do you happen to remember the other choices?
8% and 83% were definitely options
Also for the woman racer one, i put “Because she had trained…” or whatever the answer starting eith because was. Another answer was “Having trained…” anyone got thoughts on this??
What was the woman racer question???
I remember putting having something though…