In Millington,a city of 50,000 people,Mercedes Pedrosa,a realtor,calculated that a family with

题目

In Millington,a city of 50,000 people,Mercedes Pedrosa,a realtor,calculated that a family with
Millington’s median family income,$28,000 a year,could afford to buy Millington’s
median-priced $77,000 house.This calculation was based on an 11.2 percent mortgage interest
rate and on the realtor’s assumption that a family could only afford to pay up to 25 percent of its
income for housing.
Which of the following corrections of a figure appearing in the passage above,if it were the
only correction that needed to be made,would yield a new calculation showing that even
incomes below the median family income would enable families in Millington to afford
Millington’s median-priced house?
(A) Millington’s total population was 45,000 people.
(B) Millington’s median annual family income was $27,000
(C) Millington’s median-priced house cost $80,000
(D) The rate at which people in Millington had to pay mortgage interest was only 10 percent.
(E) Fam

答案

这题根本就不用算.
问题是为了使低于中级消费水平的人买起房子,要改个题目中的一个数据.
A：买不买得起房子跟人口不搭界吧.
B：median annual family income减少了,那不是低层的人工资会更少,怎么可能买得起.
C：房价提升还能是低层人买得起?
D：对的.只有mortgage interest降低了,意味着交钱更少了,才有可能买得起.
E：同样道理,中层收入的拿出买房的钱少了,低层的同样也会减少.也不能使低层的人买得起房.