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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Atlantic Ocean.

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Okay, read the passage, skim it, review it, love it...

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It can be inferred that the women most often turned away as "LPC," as described in Passage

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2, probably fell into which of the following categories described in Passage 1?

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So here are the potential answers...

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To answer this question, we'll need to rely on two key facts from Passage 2.

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One: First-class and second-class tickets cost money—and lots of it...

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And two: "LPC" meant that the government thought the person wouldn't be able to support herself

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financially.

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Put those facts together, and we know we're looking for the class of passenger mentioned

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in Passage 1, who didn't have the cash for an upper class sea voyage.

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Could choice (A) be our answer?

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Nope, we just said that the first and second class passengers are too rich for our taste,

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so we can eliminate (A).

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Choice (B) is wrong for the same reason. If a person had the money for a first or second

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class ticket, then the chances were high they wouldn't be labeled "LPC."

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If "the vast majority of immigrants" were all labeled "LPC," then hardly anybody

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would've gotten into the country back in the day.

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This was not the case, however, as both passages tell us

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that tons of immigrants entered the U.S. Choice (E) is a definite no. "Legal inspectors"

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were the ones going around labeling people as "LPC," and it's pretty doubtful they

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were labeling themselves that way. Ah, at long last we've reached our destination.

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It looks like (C) is the correct answer.

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Passage 2 tells us that the "'steerage' or third class passengers" were the ones with

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the least amount of money, therefore we can infer that they were most likely to be labeled

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"LPC."

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Although, we figure there must've been exceptions to the rule...

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