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American homes wired for electricity 1920 - 1956 The table below gives you three columns of data

about the number 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 was 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 1920 1923 1926 1929 1932 1935 1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 %ALL 35 44 58 68 67 68 75 80 84 86 94 97 99 %FARM 2 3 5 9 11 13 24 35 42 60 78 91 96

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