Explanation for Question 46 From the Reading Section on the 2019 March Sat
Looking now at question number 46, 2 we are looking for the meaning of this word resolve in context as 3 used in line 44. So let's take a look at the context of how 4 the word resolve is used. Um, 5 the author says that other scientists had examined the glass beads for signs of 6 water decades earlier, but their detection capabilities were no match for the 7 irons at the ion microbes ability to resolve 8 measurements at the scale of a million of an inch. 9 So when we see resolve here, um, 10 we are thinking about the iron microbes ability to 11 essentially reconcile, um, 12 how small these measurements, 13 how precise they were, um, 14 with the accuracy that was required by the scientist to choose, 15 draw a firm conclusion. So when we look at our answer choices, 16 4 46, um, 17 we see answer choice. I distinguish between that's going to be, 18 um, most resonant with that, meaning about picking up all these really fine details, 19 finding a really good measurement, despite the very small scale that we're looking at. 20 So distinguish between is our correct answer choice. 21 Other answer choices, choice B change into doesn't quite make sense. 22 Resolve is really looking at differentiating, 23 um, those two or those, those, 24 uh, very, very precise measurements. So change into is incorrect. 25 See, convert to again, incorrect for a similar reason, 26 change into and convert to have very similar meanings and answer choice. 27 Dave clear from perhaps has a similar meaning to a,...