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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. total loan payment minus the amount of the loan ($10,000) equals the total interest charges. One of the most difficult tasks on the quantitative scale, this item requires readers to look at an advertisement for a home equity loan and then, using the information given, explain how they would calculate the total amount of the interest charges associated with the loan. Excerpts taken from: National Center for Education and Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Defining Literacy and Sample Items. [Online]. Available: http://nces.ed.gov/naal/defining/defining.asp [accessed: October, 2003]. 
FIGURE C-13 Home equity loan advertisement used in NALS.
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