* This item was also used in the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS).

This test item has a task difficulty of 279, meaning that people with a skill level of 279 have an 80% probability of being able to perform the task. People at a skill level of 150 have only a 27% probability of being able to perform this task, while people at a skill level of 300 have an 89% probability of performing the item and those at a skill level of 350 have a 98% probability of performing the task.

On the Prose scale, the YALS report states that, over all items,

99.7 percent perform at the 150 level or above,
96.1 percent perform at the 200 level or above,
82.7 percent perform at the 250 level or above,
56.4 percent perform at the 300 level or above,
21.1 percent perform at the 350 level or above,
8.8 percent at the 375 level or above.