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

提问时间：2020-12-13

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.