The table below gives you three columns of data about the percentage of homes that were wired to use electricity from 1920 through 1956. The first column is simply the year that the data in the same row were gathered. The second column, "% All," tells you what percent of all the homes in America were wired. The last column, "% FARM," tells you the percentage of farms that were wired for electricity. Take a moment to examine the information in this table.
	Year % ALL %FARM 1920 35 2 1923 44 3 1926 58 5 1929 68 9 1932 67 11 1935 68 13 1938 75 24 1941 80 35 1944 84 42 1947 86 60 1950 94 78 1953 97 91 1956 99 96
	Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970. (Washington, DC.: Government Printing Office, 1975), p. 827.
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