Explanation for Question 29 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 29 says what would be the effect on lithics findings of the discovery 2 of a planet with a radius four times greater than Earth's and a density 3 smaller to earth, so, or similar to earth? 4 Sorry. So the first thing we need to do here is outline or not 5 outline because it's outlined in the passage. We need to find where it's outlined 6 in the passage with fixed findings. So if we go back up here, 7 it comes at the very, very end. And we can see that these are 8 lithics findings because we have Lithwick up there in the top 9 introductory sentence of this paragraph. And it says at the bottom that they also 10 found a pattern as the planets grew bigger and radius, 11 their density declined. So big radius, 12 increased radius, decreased density. 13 So let's look back at the question here and see again what they were 14 asking. 15 So they're saying that they have a radius four times greater than earth. 16 So really big radius should correspond according to Lithwick to really small 17 density. But in this case, it's saying that there's a density similar to earth. 18 So it would go against lithics findings because it didn't have that teeny, 19 teeny tiny density in comparison. 20 So if we look at the answer choices here, we see that a says 21 that it would have no effect on the findings, 22 which is incorrect, right? Because this is completely contrary to what he predicted 23 based says it would bolster the findings, 24 which means that it would like severely 25 or not se...