Answer:
The price of cotton cloth declined more than 50% from 1700 to 1800
Explanation:
The point of this paragraph is to explain how industrialization affected the price of goods and the process of how they were made. So, supporting information needs to be relevant to the subject of the paragraph and accurate with what the paragraph is describing.
So, we have four choices. As I stated above the first option is correct, so lets ignore that one for now. We can eliminate the second answer because it provides information that is the exact opposite of what the paragraph describes. It is inaccurate. The paragraph describes how the price of goods <em>decreased</em> as the industrial revolution occurred. However, this answer choice is suggesting that prices <em>increased</em> for shoes during the time the industrial revolution took place. So this choice is incorrect.
The third option we can eliminate because it is irrelevant. As stated above, the subject of the paragraph is how industrialization affected the <em>price </em>and <em>manufacturing</em> of goods. The amount of people owning firearms is not relevant to what the subject of the paragraph is because it is not talking about the <em>price,</em> or the <em>manufacturing</em> of firearms. So we can eliminate this answer.
The fourth option can also be eliminated. The reason is because this option is irrelevant as well. How many people lived in rural areas is not relevant to the subject of the paragraph.
So, we are left with the first answer choice. We know that this is the correct option because it is the only answer out of the four that is relevant to the subject, <em>and</em> is accurate alongside the information provided in the paragraph. Prices declined through the process of industrialization and the first answer choice describes exactly that. The information is correct and relevant.
