In NAME_1, a city of 50,000 people, NAME_2, a realtor, calculated that a family with NAME_1’s median family income, $28,000 a year, could afford to buy NAME_1’s median-priced $77,000 house. This calculation was based on an 11.2 percent mortgage interest rate and on the realtor’s assumption that a family could only afford to pay up to 25 percent of its income for housing.
    Which of the following corrections of a figure appearing in the passage above, if it were the only correction that needed to be made, would yield a new calculation showing that even incomes below the median family income would enable families in NAME_1 to afford NAME_1’s median-priced house?
(A) NAME_1’s total population was 45,000 people.
(B) NAME_1’s median annual family income was $27,000.
(C) NAME_1’s median-priced house cost $80,000.
(D) The rate at which people in NAME_1 had to pay mortgage interest was only 10 percent.
(E) Families in NAME_1 could only afford to pay up to 22 percent of their annual income for housing.