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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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Craft and Structure · Lesson 1

Words and phrases in context

A words-in-context question quotes a word or short phrase and asks what it most nearly means or suggests as it is used in the passage. The ACT picks words with several meanings, so the meaning you know best is often a trap. The question is never "What does this word mean?" It is "What does this word mean here?"

Use the same routine every time. First, reread the whole sentence and the sentence on each side of it. Second, cover the word and say in your own plain words what would fit in that spot. Third, find the choice that matches your prediction. Fourth, put that choice back into the sentence and read it. If the sentence still says what the author meant, you have it.

For a figurative phrase (a comparison or image, such as a seam that "wandered like a creek"), ask what the image tells you about the real thing. A creek bends and curves, so the seam was crooked. The answer describes the real thing, not the picture.

One word, different meanings in different sentences
WordCommon meaningMeaning in a different context
sharpa sharp knife: able to cuta sharp rise in prices: sudden and large
covercover the pot: put a lid onthe report covers ten years: includes, deals with
gravea place of buriala grave mistake: serious
checkcheck your answer: look overa check on her power: a limit

Worked example Easy

Walk along almost any old stone wall and you will find small crusts of color: gray-green rosettes, orange flecks, patches that look like spilled paint. These are lichens, and although they resemble plants, each one is actually a partnership. A fungus builds the body of the lichen and holds water, while algae or bacteria living inside it make food from sunlight.

This arrangement lets lichens survive where few other organisms can. They cling to bare rock, tree bark, and even metal signs, and they can dry out almost completely and then revive after a single rain. Their toughness has a surprising limit, however. Because lichens have no roots, they absorb nearly everything they need directly from the air and rainwater that touch them, and that includes pollutants.

For this reason, some ecologists treat lichens as living instruments. A city block where shrubby, branching lichens thrive usually has cleaner air than one where only a few flat, crusty kinds hang on. Surveying lichens costs far less than installing electronic sensors, though it cannot give an exact reading for any single pollutant. Instead, it offers a rough but patient record: lichens grow slowly, so the community on a wall reflects conditions over many years, not just one afternoon.

As it is used in paragraph 3, the word instruments most nearly means:

  1. tools that are played to make music
  2. formal legal papers, such as contracts
  3. devices that measure conditionsAnswer
  4. people used to carry out another's plans

How to solve it

  1. Reread the sentence and the ones after it: ecologists treat lichens as living instruments, cleaner air goes with branching lichens, and surveys are compared with electronic sensors.
  2. Predict a replacement: "living measuring tools."
  3. Match: only devices that measure conditions fits the prediction.
  4. Check by substitution: "some ecologists treat lichens as living devices that measure conditions." The sentence keeps its meaning.

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Incorrect. Tools that are played to make music is the most familiar meaning of the word, but nothing in the paragraph involves sound or music; the lichens are compared with ways of checking air quality.
  • B. Incorrect. Formal legal papers, such as contracts is a real meaning of the word, yet the paragraph is about judging air, not about agreements or documents.
  • C. Correct. The next sentences explain what the lichens reveal: a block where branching lichens thrive "usually has cleaner air," and a survey is compared with "installing electronic sensors." Lichens work like devices that measure conditions.
  • D. Incorrect. People used to carry out another's plans describes humans acting for someone else, but lichens are not carrying out anyone's plan; they record the air around them.

Worked example Medium

My grandmother kept her sewing machine in the coldest room of the house, a narrow porch with windows on three sides. The summer I turned fifteen, she decided I would learn to use it, and I decided, privately, that I would not.

For the first week I sat beside her with my arms folded while she threaded the needle in a series of quick, practiced loops. She never asked whether I was paying attention. She simply narrated, the way some people hum: "Up through the guide, down around the tension disk, back up to the lever." I told myself I wasn't listening.

Then one afternoon she left for the market, and the hem of my favorite jeans came loose. I stared at the machine for a long time. When I finally sat down, my hands moved before I could stop them (up through the guide, down around the disk), and the words came with them, in her voice.

The seam I sewed that day wandered like a creek. I kept the jeans anyway. Years later, when friends ask how I learned to sew, I tell them I never had a single lesson. It is the kind of fib my grandmother would have enjoyed.

In paragraph 2, the comparison "the way some people hum" mainly suggests that the grandmother:

  1. talked through the steps out of habit, without expecting a replyAnswer
  2. sang the threading instructions aloud to a familiar tune
  3. spoke so softly that the steps could hardly be heard
  4. repeated the steps impatiently because of the narrator's refusal

How to solve it

  1. Ask what humming is like: something people do on their own, often without noticing, not for a listener.
  2. Find the nearby support: "She never asked whether I was paying attention." The grandmother talked without demanding a response.
  3. Predict: "She talked through the steps casually, for herself, not to check on me."
  4. Eliminate the literal reading (singing a tune), the one contradicted by paragraph 3 (too soft to hear), and the one that invents a feeling (impatience).

Why each choice is right or wrong

  • A. Correct. People hum without thinking about an audience, and the sentence before the comparison says "She never asked whether I was paying attention." She talked through the steps out of habit, without expecting a reply.
  • B. Incorrect. Sang the threading instructions aloud to a familiar tune takes the comparison literally; the passage quotes spoken words ("Up through the guide...") and never mentions a tune.
  • C. Incorrect. Spoke so softly that the steps could hardly be heard is contradicted in paragraph 3, where the narrator remembers the exact words "in her voice," so they were heard clearly.
  • D. Incorrect. Repeated the steps impatiently adds a feeling the passage never gives; the grandmother "never asked whether I was paying attention," which shows calm, not impatience.

Trap The dictionary-meaning trap

The most common meaning of the quoted word is often one of the choices, because it is what a hurried reader expects. In the lichen passage, tools that are played to make music is the meaning most students think of first, and it has nothing to do with the paragraph.

Protect yourself by predicting before you look. If you have already said "measuring tools" in your head, the music choice cannot pull you in.

Trap Taking an image literally

For a comparison, one wrong choice usually describes the picture instead of the real thing: the grandmother actually sang, or real chairs actually fell. Ask, "What is the writer telling me about the person or object?" The image is a way of describing a feeling, a sound, or a shape, not an event that happened.

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