Question

read the claim below.
a college education has become too expensive.
select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.
a college scholarship usually consists of money for tuition that a student will not have to repay.
the average college student carries about thirty thousand dollars in debt by the time he or she graduates.
the average tuition at a community college is only about three thousand dollars per year.

Explanation:

This option provides concrete evidence of the financial burden students face after college, directly showing that the cost of education is so high that most students need to take on significant debt to complete it, which supports the claim that college education is too expensive. The other options either describe a financial aid solution (not evidence of high cost) or cite a relatively low tuition figure that contradicts the claim.

Answer:

The average college student carries about thirty thousand dollars in debt by the time he or she graduates.