While some still require the reader to match a single feature, more distracting information may be present, and the match may require a low-level inference. Some tasks at this level may require the reader to enter information onto a form or to cycle through information in a document. Tasks at this level appear to be the most varied. Sometimes the reader must take conditional information into account. Tasks at this level require the reader to search through complex displays of information that contain multiple distracters, make high-level inferences, process conditional information, or use specialized knowledge.
Quantitative literacy involves using numbers and arithmetic operations to complete a task.
These tasks require the reader to locate and extract numbers from different types of documents that contain similar but irrelevant information, infer numbers from printed directions, or calculate numbers using multiple operations. Tasks at this level typically require the reader to perform a single operation. However, the operations are more varied-some multiplication and division tasks are found at this level. Sometimes two or more numbers are needed to solve the problem, and the numbers are frequently embedded in more complex displays. With one exception, the tasks at this level require the reader to perform a single arithmetic operation in which the quantities or the operations are not easily determined.