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Command of Evidence: Quantitative

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 2/5

A historian charted U.S. national debt (in B)attheendoffourwars:CivilWar(1865),B) at the end of four wars: Civil War (1865),2.7B; WWI (1918), 25.5B;WWII(1945),25.5B; WWII (1945),258B; Vietnam (1975), $533B. The historian concluded that absolute war-end debt grew by orders of magnitude across these conflicts. To support this, the historian cited ______

Which choice most logically completes the text using the data above?

  • A

    the roughly 200x rise from Civil War debt (2.7B)toVietnam−eradebt(2.7B) to Vietnam-era debt (533B).

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  • B

    the 1945 figure of $258B.

  • C

    the 1865 figure of $2.7B.

  • D

    the 1918 figure of $25.5B.

Explanation

"Orders of magnitude growth" is supported by the ~200x ratio across the period. Choice B captures this directly.

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