SAT Question b98b8f64: Answer & Explanation

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• 1926: The US Congress gave the US Commerce Department authority to regulate safety standards in the fledgling commercial airline industry.
• 1938: Congress transferred this authority to a new independent government agency called the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA).
• 1958: Congress transferred authority from the CAA to the newly established Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
• The FAA’s first administrator, Elwood R. Quesada, updated safety standards and technologies for the era of commercial jets.
• The FAA remains the regulatory authority for airline safety.

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Difficulty:Medium

The student wants to specify the order in which different government entities were given the authority to regulate airline safety in the US. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

The CAA had the authority to regulate safety for US airlines from 1938 until 1958, at which point authority was transferred to the US Commerce Department by Elwood R. Quesada.

The FAA, CAA, and the US Commerce Department all had the authority to regulate US airline safety, but they possessed this authority at different times.

The FAA has regulated airline safety since it was established by the US Congress in 1958.

The authority to regulate US airline safety transferred from the US Commerce Department to the CAA in 1938, then from the CAA to the FAA in 1958.

SAT Question b98b8f64: Rhetorical Synthesis answer and explanation

Explanation

Why the other choices are wrong