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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?

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

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Key Ideas and Details · Lesson 3

Inferences

An inference is something the passage strongly suggests but doesn't state outright. Stems say suggests, implies, it can reasonably be inferred, or most likely.

On the ACT, an inference is a short step from the text, not a leap. Think of it this way: if you showed the right answer to the author, the author would say, “Yes, that's what I meant.” You should be able to point to the words that lead to it.

Use evidence first. Find the lines the stem points to, ask what they show about a character's feelings, a person's view, or a likely reason, and say your answer in plain words. In literary passages, actions and dialogue carry the meaning: what a character does, says, or doesn't say.

Worked example Easy

Every Saturday that spring, Dev arrived at his aunt Priya's pottery studio before the doors opened, and every Saturday she handed him the same lump of clay. “Center it,” she would say, and then she would go back to glazing bowls at the far table, leaving him alone at the wheel.

For the first month, the clay wobbled and slumped no matter what he did. He watched videos at night, copying the posture of potters who made it look effortless, and he came back each week certain that this time would be different. It never was. Once, he asked whether he could try making a cup instead, just to see. Priya didn't look up. “When it's centered,” she said.

In May, something changed so quietly that Dev almost missed it. He braced his elbows against his knees, leaned his weight into the spinning clay, and felt the lump stop fighting him. Under his palms it turned smooth and still, like a stone in a stream. He held his breath and lifted his hands away. The clay kept spinning, perfectly round.

He glanced toward the far table. Priya was watching him, a brush paused in her hand. She set it down, walked over, and placed a second lump of clay beside the wheel. “Now,” she said, “we can start.”

In paragraph 2, Priya's reply to Dev's request to make a cup suggests that she:

  1. wants Dev to master centering before he moves on to anything else.Answer
  2. is too busy glazing her bowls to give Dev any real instruction.
  3. thinks that cups are harder to make than the bowls she is glazing.
  4. has already decided that Dev will never learn to use the wheel.

How to solve it

  1. Find the evidence. Priya's reply is “When it's centered.”
  2. She doesn't refuse the cup forever; she names a condition. Combined with her weekly instruction, “Center it,” this shows centering comes first in her teaching.
  3. Check the tempting choice B. She “didn't look up,” but her answer is a deliberate rule, and in the last paragraph she sets down her brush to help him.

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Correct. Her reply, “When it's centered,” makes centering the condition for trying a cup, and her repeated instruction “Center it” shows it is her first lesson.
  • B. Incorrect. She didn't look up, but her reply sets a clear condition, and in the last paragraph she sets down her brush and walks over, so she isn't simply too busy.
  • C. Incorrect. The passage never compares how hard cups and bowls are to make. Her reply is about centering, not about which shape is harder.
  • D. Incorrect. Her reply expects that the clay will be centered, and the ending shows her ready to start lessons, so she has not given up on him.

Worked example Medium

Every Saturday that spring, Dev arrived at his aunt Priya's pottery studio before the doors opened, and every Saturday she handed him the same lump of clay. “Center it,” she would say, and then she would go back to glazing bowls at the far table, leaving him alone at the wheel.

For the first month, the clay wobbled and slumped no matter what he did. He watched videos at night, copying the posture of potters who made it look effortless, and he came back each week certain that this time would be different. It never was. Once, he asked whether he could try making a cup instead, just to see. Priya didn't look up. “When it's centered,” she said.

In May, something changed so quietly that Dev almost missed it. He braced his elbows against his knees, leaned his weight into the spinning clay, and felt the lump stop fighting him. Under his palms it turned smooth and still, like a stone in a stream. He held his breath and lifted his hands away. The clay kept spinning, perfectly round.

He glanced toward the far table. Priya was watching him, a brush paused in her hand. She set it down, walked over, and placed a second lump of clay beside the wheel. “Now,” she said, “we can start.”

In the last paragraph, Priya's placing a second lump of clay beside the wheel and saying “Now,” … “we can start” most strongly suggests that she:

  1. is disappointed that it took Dev until May to center the clay.
  2. plans to finish glazing her bowls before she helps Dev further.
  3. sees Dev's success at centering as what lets his real lessons begin.Answer
  4. thinks Dev should now teach the centering technique to other students.

How to solve it

  1. Look at what she does and says. She was watching, set her brush down, walked over, added new clay, and said “Now... we can start.”
  2. Now ties the start to what just happened: Dev centered the clay. Start means the months before were preparation.
  3. Eliminate choices the passage gives no evidence for (A and D) and the one it contradicts (B).

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Incorrect. Nothing she says or does shows disappointment. She sets down her brush and brings more clay, which suggests readiness, not displeasure about the wait until May.
  • B. Incorrect. The passage says she “set it down, walked over,” so she stops glazing to help him right away rather than finishing her bowls first.
  • C. Correct. Right after Dev centers the clay, she brings “a second lump of clay” and says “Now... we can start,” treating centering as the step that opens the real lessons.
  • D. Incorrect. The passage mentions no other students, and “we can start” describes Dev and Priya beginning together.

Trap The inference that goes too far

Wrong inference choices build a story the passage never tells: a feeling no one shows (disappointed), a person who never appears (other students), or a motive the text doesn't support. If you can't point to the words that suggest it, it isn't the answer.

Also watch for a detail read in isolation. A character who didn't look up might seem uninterested, but the rest of the passage shows Priya was teaching all along. Check your inference against the whole passage, not one line.

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