Information and IdeasHardReading a table of heating by area
Information and Ideas practice question
Households by main heating fuel
Area | Wood | Gas | Electric
Village | 120 | 200 | 80
Town | 50 | 900 | 550
A planner notes that although the town has more households of every kind, ____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
- A. wood heats a much larger share of village households, 30 percent, than of town households, about 3 percent.Correct
- B. the village has 120 wood-heated households.
- C. gas is the most common fuel in both places.
- D. the town has 50 wood-heated households.
Answer: A. wood heats a much larger share of village households, 30 percent, than of town households, about 3 percent.
Shares, not counts.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the village has 120 wood-heated households.
- A count, no comparison of shares.
- C. gas is the most common fuel in both places.
- True, but not about the difference.
- D. the town has 50 wood-heated households.
- A count, no comparison.
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