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In January there was a large drop in the number of new houses sold, be 27 Jul 2025, 21:59
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We're not trying to prove that the average price went up. The argument tells us explicitly that it did. We're just trying to solve a mystery: Why did the average price go up at the same time that people were holding off on buying houses? Answer choice A gives us a reason. Buyers of expensive houses didn't need to wait for a better financing deal, so those houses were selling as other houses were not. So we saw an increase in average prices because the high-end segment of the market was able to carry on while the lower end faltered. We don't need to know any specifics, such as whether high-end houses sold for more than usual, etc., because again we're not trying to prove anything. We just need to find something that explains the mystery, and this does it.
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Can someone please explain these 2 points regarding answer option A ?
1) We dont know if the volume of High priced houses sold increased or not ?
2) We dont know if the prices of these high priced houses went up or not ?

Then how do we understand if the average went up ? (The low and moderately priced houses are still low in sales volume )
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