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Median income = $60,000
Homeowners can allocate at most 5% of income toward insurance
So the maximum affordable annual payment is
60,000 × 0.05 = 3,000
The policy itself costs $7,000, but the passage also mentions a 12% annual interest rate. This suggests that the policy cost is being financed over time, so the affordability depends partly on the payment rate.

A. The total population of the city of Dreaming is 57,000.

This has nothing to do with whether an individual homeowner can afford insurance.

B. The annual payment rate on Endless Insurance’s home insurance policies is 10 percent.
This lowers the payment burden from 12% to 10%. Lower financing costs make the policy easier to afford, meaning even people earning below $60,000 may now afford the same insurance coverage.
Correct

C. The median-priced home insurance offered by Endless Insurance costs $8,000.

Increasing the insurance price makes affordability harder, not easier.

D. The median income in the city of Dreaming was $55,000.
A lower median income weakens affordability because 5% of $55,000 is less than 5% of $60,000.

E. Dreaming’s homeowners can afford to allocate only four percent of their income toward insurance.
Reducing the allocation limit from 5% to 4% makes the policy less affordable.

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The city of Dreaming has a population of 60,000 and only one home insurance provider, Endless Insurance. The city’s welfare department calculated that a homeowner earning the city’s median income of $60,000 a year could afford Endless Insurance’s median-priced home insurance coverage, which costs $7,000. The welfare department based this calculation on a 12 percent annual interest rate and on the assumption that Dreaming’s homeowners could only afford to allocate up to five percent of their respective incomes towards insurance.

Which of the following corrections of a figure mentioned in the above passage, if it were the only necessary correction, would lead to a new calculation indicating that even incomes below the median income would permit homeowners to afford Endless Insurance’s median-priced home insurance coverage?

A. The total population of the city of Dreaming is 57, 000.
B. The annual payment rate on Endless Insurance’s home insurance policies is 10 percent.
C. The median-priced home insurance offered by Endless Insurance costs $8,000.
D. The median income in the city of Dreaming was $55,000.
E. Dreaming’s homeowners can afford to allocate only four percent of their income towards insurance.


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The city of Dreaming has a population of 60,000 and only one home insurance provider, Endless Insurance. The city’s welfare department calculated that a homeowner earning the city’s median income of $60,000 a year could afford Endless Insurance’s median-priced home insurance coverage, which costs $7,000. The welfare department based this calculation on a 12 percent annual interest rate and on the assumption that Dreaming’s homeowners could only afford to allocate up to five percent of their respective incomes towards insurance.

Which of the following corrections of a figure mentioned in the above passage, if it were the only necessary correction, would lead to a new calculation indicating that even incomes below the median income would permit homeowners to afford Endless Insurance’s median-priced home insurance coverage?

A. The total population of the city of Dreaming is 57, 000.
B. The annual payment rate on Endless Insurance’s home insurance policies is 10 percent.
C. The median-priced home insurance offered by Endless Insurance costs $8,000.
D. The median income in the city of Dreaming was $55,000.
E. Dreaming’s homeowners can afford to allocate only four percent of their income towards insurance.

B is the best choice.

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