Read the claim. The overuse of social media has led to a decline in the academic performance of this country’s high school students. Which reasons are logically sound and could be used to support the claim? Choose two correct answers.

D gives a direct reason social media could hurt academic performance: students who spend more time on it have less time for studying and homework. E offers broader evidence that test scores dropped or stayed flat in many states during a year when social media use was at a high point. Together, these support the claim more strongly than examples limited to one school or neighborhood, though E alone does not prove that social media caused the score changes.

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