Reading & WritingChapter 3: Command of Evidence
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3-5: What are bar graphs especially useful for?
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Comparing values across categories or grouped conditions.
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3-5: What belongs on the numeric axis?
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A labeled scale and unit that let bar lengths map to values.
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3-5: What does a legend identify?
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Which named series each bar style represents.
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3-5: Largest value versus largest increase?
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Largest value compares endpoints; largest increase compares each endpoint with its own starting value.
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3-5: What is a grouped-bar trap?
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Reading the right category from the wrong series.
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3-5: Why should bars usually start at zero?
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Answer
A zero baseline makes lengths proportional and avoids visually exaggerating small differences.
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3-5: Can a shorter bar be stronger evidence?
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Yes, when the claim predicts a lower value or reduction.
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3-5: Why not rely on color alone?
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Series also need labels, patterns, or other cues for accessible distinction.
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3-5: All bars rose. Does that prove which rose most?
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No. Compare the size of each within-category increase.
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3-5: Final grouped-bar check?
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Say category, series, value, unit, and comparison aloud.
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3-5: What official SAT skill contains this topic?
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Information and Ideas → Command of Evidence. This topic is an internal teaching subdivision, not a separate official skill.
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3-5: Is this Textual or Quantitative practice?
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Primarily Command of Evidence—Quantitative.
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3-5: What is the central focus?
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Answer
comparing categorical values and grouped series as evidence
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3-5: What does relevant evidence look like?
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Bar values tied to the exact category, series, scale, and unit named by the claim.
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3-5: Give an irrelevant-evidence pattern.
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The tallest bar when the claim concerns change, gap, or an exception instead of a maximum.
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3-5: What scope rule matters most?
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Grouped bars require both a category and a series label.
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3-5: What verification step prevents errors?
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Answer
Use the underlying values to confirm the visual comparison.
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3-5: Support means prove—true or false?
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False. Evidence may strengthen or be consistent with a claim without establishing certainty.
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3-5: What is the minimum-assumption rule?
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Prefer the evidence that reaches the supplied claim most directly with the fewest unstated bridges.
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3-5: Command of Evidence versus Inferences?
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Command of Evidence gives the claim and asks for evidence; Inferences gives evidence and asks for the conclusion.
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