Question

Which of the following pieces of evidence from Fast Food Nation best supports the author’s claim that teenagers are the ideal candidates for working in the fast food industry?

And it gives fast food companies an enormous amount of power over their employees.
Since most teenagers still lived at home, they could afford to work for wages too low to support an adult, and until recently, their limited skills attracted few other employers.
Workers at the counter are told to increase the size of an order by recommending special promotions, pushing dessert, pointing out the financial logic behind the purchase of a larger drink.
A McDonald’s kitchen is full of buzzers and flashing lights that tell employees what to do

Answer 1

"Since most teenagers still lived at home, they could afford to work for wages too low to support an adult, and until recently, their limited skills attracted few other employers."

This sentence directly explains why teenagers were ideal hires: they could accept low pay and had few alternative job options because of limited skills.