SAT Reading / Data & Quantitative Literacy

Using Data to Test Claims

Part of the full libraryOpens January 2, 2027 · $97 for a year
What’s included
trendThe overall way a set of numbers changes over time or across groups, such as rising, falling, or staying flat.

You’ll leave with these skills

  1. Find the data that back up a conclusionCheck that the choice is true in the figure and matches the conclusion’s groups, measure, direction, and any claimed size of difference.
  2. Back up a claim that a treatment made a differencePick the choice that sets the results with the treatment next to the results without it.
  3. Find data that cover both parts of a two-part conclusionSplit the conclusion at the word “but,” “while,” or “except,” and pick the choice with data for both halves.
  4. Spot the data that break what a hypothesis predictsSay what result the hypothesis predicts, then pick the data that don’t show that result.

This lesson is part of the full library

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