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PSAT 1.4 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following conclusions is supported by the data in the graph?
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as many superheroes living in cape town as you might
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expect Night Check up grab here Which of the following
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conclusions is supported by the data in the graph And
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here the potential answers So what's it asking Well we've
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got four possible conclusions over here but only one of
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them is backed up by the information we've been giving
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The other three can take a flying leap for a
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weekend made up The trick is to figure out which
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three are trying to pull a fast one on us
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let's take them one at a time and see if
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we're buying what they're selling Option b says that as
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chlorophyll increases sea surface temperature increases because they are positively
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correlated That is totally correct on opposite day according to
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the graph As chlorophyll concentration increases sea surface temperature decreases
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that's why is the line moves from left to right
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These numbers here are getting bigger while these were getting
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smaller not unlike our pool of possible answer choices these
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out of here What about c Which suggests that if
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chlorophyll concentration is zero than the sea surface temperature is
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approximately twelve degrees centigrade All right well let's take our
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little finger Actually Any of them will do and find
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the point of the graph at which the concentration of
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chlorophyll is zero right here Looks like that line of
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best fit is hovering A bit over the sixteen degree
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mark which unless mathematicians recently switched it up on us
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is not the same as twelve degrees but we can
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reduce our concentration on choiceseat zero next up is option
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d if the sea surface temperature is less than fourteen
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degrees centigrade the chlorophyll concentration is less than ten well
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here's the part of the graph represented by everything under
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fourteen degrees and if we're to extend our line of
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best bit out of ways we'd see that everywhere it
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falls inside the shaded area the chlorophyll concentration is more
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than ten not less so this option is a shady
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is so new graph will next d answer is the
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right choice If the sea surface temperature is fifteen degrees
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centigrade or phil concentration is likely to be between eight
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point zero and eight point five Yeah here's fifteen degrees
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right along this axis and if we go straight across
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to the line of best fit yet that totally falls
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somewhere between a chlorophyll concentration of between eight and eight
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point five we're really glad we got the right answer
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but we're going to take a break now and lie
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down for a bit Some reason we're seeing dot home
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