Which of the following statements about the unemployment rate during the Great Depression can be inferred from the passage?

It was sometimes higher than 15 percent.

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It has been analyzed seriously only since the early 1970’s.

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It can be calculated more easily than can unemployment frequency.

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It was never as high as the rate during the 1870’s.

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It has been shown by Keyssar to be lower than previously thought.

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Solution

The correct option is A It was sometimes higher than 15 percent.
It is given in the passage that, ‘during the worst years, in the 1870’s and 1890’s, unemployment was around 15 percent.’ ’Given this perspective, joblessness looms much larger‘
Combining both the lines we can say that unemployment rate during the Great Depression was at sometimes more than 15%. This is given in option (a).

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