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MathProblem-Solving and Data AnalysisHard

A store raises the price of a jacket by 20%. Later, it lowers the new price by 20%. The final price is what percent of the original price?

A80%
B96%Correct
C100%The trap
D104%

Check with $100: $100then$120then$96

  1. Turn each change into a multiplier.

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    1.20 × 0.80 = 0.96

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    The final price is 96% of the original. That’s B.

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Yes. In the standard full-length tests, Module 2 of each section is the harder version if you get 60% or more of Module 1 right, and the easier version if you don’t. Challenge tests are built from harder material in every module.

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Paired Passages · Lesson 3

Predict how one author would answer the other

The hardest paired questions put the two authors in conversation: "The author of Passage B would most likely respond to Passage A's claim by..." Neither passage actually answers the other, so you have to predict.

The prediction is not a guess about what a sensible person would say. Take the responding author's own stated reasons and apply them to the other author's claim. If Passage B's main reason is "you can't undo it," then B's response to almost anything in A will lean on that reason.

Work in three steps. First, find the exact claim the question quotes and what it means in its own passage. Second, find the responding author's main reason or rule. Third, choose the answer that applies that reason to the claim, and check it against the responding author's actual words. Cross out choices with extreme wording (never, always, any) unless the author is that extreme.

Attribution questions ("Which claim appears in Passage B but not in Passage A?") are the simpler cousin. Check each choice against both passages; the wrong choices are usually things Passage A did say.

Worked example Medium

Passage A

When a painting reaches my studio, it rarely looks the way its artist left it. Centuries of candle smoke and yellowed varnish lie over the surface like a brown fog, and earlier repairs have often been painted over the original in colors that no longer match. My job is to remove what time and careless hands have added, so that viewers can see the picture the painter meant them to see.

Critics sometimes complain that a freshly cleaned painting looks too bright, almost new. I understand the reaction, but I think it says more about our habits than about the painting. We have grown used to old masters looking dim and brown, and we mistake the dirt for dignity. The artist chose those blues and reds. Leaving them buried under grime is not respect; it is neglect.

Passage B

A painting that has hung in churches and palaces for four hundred years is not only the artist's work. It is also a record of everything that has happened to it since: the varnish an owner added in one century, the careful repair a craftsman made in another. Some of those layers may even have been added by the artist's own studio, and once they are scraped away, no one can put them back.

For this reason I side with restorers who do as little as possible. Stabilize the paint so it does not flake; remove a layer only when there is clear evidence that it is harmful or was never meant to be there. If that leaves a picture a little darker than it once was, I can accept the loss. A painting can be cleaned later, when methods improve. It can never be uncleaned.

The author of Passage B would most likely respond to Passage A's claim that leaving the colors "buried under grime is not respect; it is neglect" by pointing out that:

  1. removing a layer cannot be undone, so caution can itself be a way of caring for a painting.Answer
  2. most museum visitors prefer old paintings that look dim and brown to ones that look new.
  3. the artist's original colors were probably much less bright than restorers now believe.
  4. paintings should never be cleaned under any circumstances, whatever methods are used.

How to solve it

  1. In Passage A, the quoted claim means: not cleaning a painting hides the artist's colors, and that is a failure.
  2. Passage B's main reason is permanence: "A painting can be cleaned later... It can never be uncleaned."
  3. Apply that reason to A's claim: holding back is careful, not neglectful, because removal is final. That is choice A. Choice D overstates B, which allows some cleaning.

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Correct. Passage B's main reason is that removal is permanent: once layers "are scraped away, no one can put them back," and a painting "can never be uncleaned." So holding back is not neglect in B's view.
  • B. Incorrect. The idea that people are used to dim and brown paintings comes from Passage A, which calls it a habit; Passage B never claims visitors prefer darker pictures.
  • C. Incorrect. Passage B never discusses how bright the artist's original colors were; its argument is about the risk of removing layers.
  • D. Incorrect. Passage B is not this extreme: it allows removing a layer "when there is clear evidence that it is harmful" and says a painting "can be cleaned later, when methods improve," so never is wrong.

Worked example Hard

Passage A

When a painting reaches my studio, it rarely looks the way its artist left it. Centuries of candle smoke and yellowed varnish lie over the surface like a brown fog, and earlier repairs have often been painted over the original in colors that no longer match. My job is to remove what time and careless hands have added, so that viewers can see the picture the painter meant them to see.

Critics sometimes complain that a freshly cleaned painting looks too bright, almost new. I understand the reaction, but I think it says more about our habits than about the painting. We have grown used to old masters looking dim and brown, and we mistake the dirt for dignity. The artist chose those blues and reds. Leaving them buried under grime is not respect; it is neglect.

Passage B

A painting that has hung in churches and palaces for four hundred years is not only the artist's work. It is also a record of everything that has happened to it since: the varnish an owner added in one century, the careful repair a craftsman made in another. Some of those layers may even have been added by the artist's own studio, and once they are scraped away, no one can put them back.

For this reason I side with restorers who do as little as possible. Stabilize the paint so it does not flake; remove a layer only when there is clear evidence that it is harmful or was never meant to be there. If that leaves a picture a little darker than it once was, I can accept the loss. A painting can be cleaned later, when methods improve. It can never be uncleaned.

Both authors would most likely agree that a restorer should:

  1. remove every layer of varnish that has yellowed with age.
  2. accept a darker picture rather than risk any damage at all.
  3. treat later repairs as a valuable part of a painting's history.
  4. remove a layer that is clearly harming the painting.Answer

How to solve it

  1. For an "agree" question, find the overlap. Passage A removes everything added later. Passage B removes only what is clearly harmful or never meant to be there.
  2. The overlap is the smaller set: a clearly harmful layer. Passage A would remove it as an addition, and Passage B names it as a case for removal.
  3. Choices A, B, and C each match only one author. Choice B is tempting because it is a fair summary of Passage B, but Passage A rejects it.

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Incorrect. Passage B would not remove every layer of yellowed varnish; it treats "the varnish an owner added" as part of the painting's record and removes a layer only with "clear evidence that it is harmful."
  • B. Incorrect. Only Passage B is willing to accept a darker picture; Passage A calls that choice "neglect."
  • C. Incorrect. Only Passage B values later repairs as history ("the careful repair a craftsman made"); Passage A blames "careless hands" for repairs in colors "that no longer match."
  • D. Correct. Passage B allows removing a layer "when there is clear evidence that it is harmful," and Passage A goes further: "My job is to remove what time and careless hands have added." A harmful added layer is removed under both views.

Trap Answering with your own opinion

A choice can be reasonable and still be wrong because the author never gives that reason. If you can't point to the words in the responding author's passage that lead to the choice, cross it out.

Trap Making the author more extreme than the passage

An author who prefers caution is not an author who forbids all action. Passage B says to clean "as little as possible," not never. Watch for never, always, any, and only in the choices, and check them against the author's exact words.

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