hard · SAT Reading & Writing

A youth robotics coach hypothesized that teams who logged more average daily practice minutes during a six-week season would earn higher scores at the regional competition. Five teams, sorted by average daily practice minutes, produced the following competition scores, out of 100 possible points: Team Average Daily Practice Minutes Competition Score Falcons 20 61 Comets 35 70 Vipers 50 78 Titans 65 85 Rockets 80 93 Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to support the coach's hypothesis?

1. The data prove that adding twenty extra practice minutes per day would raise any team's competition score by about eight points, regardless of starting point.
2. Rockets, who practiced 20 minutes per day on average, earned the highest competition score, 93, while Falcons, who practiced 80 minutes per day, earned the lowest, 61.
3. The Vipers logged 50 average daily practice minutes, a figure recorded using the same scoring rubric applied to all five teams.
4. Competition score rose at every increase in practice minutes, from 61 points at 20 minutes to 93 at 80 minutes across all five teams, matching the hypothesis.

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