The record must be copied exactly as it appears on the census form. the u. s. census bureau cannot make changes even though it realizes that enumerators may have been misinformed or made mistakes in writing down the data they collected.

source: united states. dept. of commerce. application for search of census records. jeffersonville: us census bureau, n. d. print.

this excerpt is from the application for census information. using your knowledge of context clues, which phrase defines the word "enumerators" as it is used in this sentence?

a. a census list
b. people who gather census information
c. information gathered by the census bureau
d. the part of a fraction above the line

B.people who gather census information is the correct answer.

Explanation:

To explain the correct answer, we are going to use the discard method. Letter A is incorrect because the subject "a census list" cannot make mistakes (it can hold or have some, but not make them), and it is one of the actions done by enumerators in the sentence. Using this argument, letter C is also incorrect because it basically refers to the same subject. Finally, D is also incorrect because it would mean that changes can be done in the part of a fraction below the line, but the excerpt states that no changes are made at all. Due to these reasons, letter B is the correct answer.

i'm sorry i don't understand the question.

ok if it wasn't the hans one it was probably c or he thought the mountain was collapsing on them.