A similar but slightly more difficult task (with a difficulty value of 268) requires the reader to use the chart about women in the teaching profession that is displayed under the document scale. This task directs the reader to calculate the percentage of men in the teaching profession in Italy. Both this task and the one just described above involve calculating the difference between two numbers. In the former, however, both numbers could be located by matching on information displayed in the table of temperatures taken from the newspaper. For the task involving male teachers in Italy, the reader must make the inference that percentage of male teachers is equal to 100% minus the percentage of female teachers. Thus, while type of calculation, type of match, and plausibility of distractor each received a code of 2, operation specificity was coded a 5, suggesting that this might be a slightly more difficult task in terms of this variable.

Tasks falling around 300 on the quantitative scale still require the reader to perform a single arithmetic operation, but the quantities may not be as easily determined. For example, one task, located at 293 on the quantitative scale, directs the reader to look at the chart depicting fireworks shown earlier for documents. The question directs the reader to calculate how many more people were injured in 1989 than in 1988. As with the earlier tasks, this task also requires the reader to subtract the difference between two quantities. Part of what contributes to the increased difficulty of this task is the fact that the reader first must determine which of the two charts is the correct one to use for this task. In addition, one of the numbers needed is not stated in the graph but must be interpolated from the information provided along the vertical axis. As a result, type of match was scored 4, plausibility of distractor was scored 2, type of calculation was scored 2, and operation specificity was coded 5.