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3. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

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This is an inference question. None of the statements are true, although each of them is cleverly worded to make you believe they are. The first statement reverses the relationship in the passage. During the Depression, around 60 percent of the people were against tax increases, which means about 40 percent supported them or had no opinion, while 80 percent were opposed to government confiscation of property, meaning 20 percent supported it or had no opinion. Thus, a larger percentage supported raising taxes. The passage only gives data from 1950 to 1970 on corporate profits, so you can’t infer what people think today. And no information is provided on opinions previous to 1930. Thus, none of the statements can be properly inferred.

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4. An assumption underlying the author’s assertion in the second paragraph is that

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This is an apply information question. An assumption is necessary to tie an argument together. In the second paragraph, the author holds that “the American spirit of Lockean liberalism and rugged individualism runs deep. It appears that most people are content to trust income distribution to the private market.” If the author is arguing that most people trust the market because of their spirit of Lockean liberalism and rugged individualism, then the assumption must be choice C, that there is a connection between the two. The other choices are not relevant to the author’s argument.

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4. An assumption underlying the author’s assertion in the second paragraph is that

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This is an apply information question. An assumption is necessary to tie an argument together. In the second paragraph, the author holds that “the American spirit of Lockean liberalism and rugged individualism runs deep. It appears that most people are content to trust income distribution to the private market.” If the author is arguing that most people trust the market because of their spirit of Lockean liberalism and rugged individualism, then the assumption must be choice C, that there is a connection between the two. The other choices are not relevant to the author’s argument.

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Firstly,In your reasoning, you said because of their spirit of Lockean liberalism and rugged individualism. I did not find any evidence that they were related. It has said.
1.the American spirit of Lockean liberalism and rugged individualism runs deep. [Meaning: They strongly believe in Lockean liberalism and rugged individualism]
2.It appears that most people are content to trust income distribution to the private market. [Meaning:I seems they are happy to believe income distribution to private market. ]
Can you explain me how is both of them related.

And I see that "Americans had never experienced economic hardships as severe as those experienced during the Great Depression" to mean from "Even during the Depression, the populace was reluctant to embrace income redistribution as a solution to the country’s woes.". Why is this wrong.
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