Answer Choices
They may be different resources from those that are valuable on Earth.
They will be valuable only if they can be harvested cheaply.
They are likely to be primarily precious metals and rare earth elements.
They may increase in value as those same resources become rare on Earth.
Explanation for Question 52 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1
Okay. So line 52 says which point about the resources that will be highly 2 valued in space is implicit in passage one and expos in passage two. 3 Well, in passage one, we basically just talk about, 4 you know, resources that would be highly valued in space. 5 Um, they don't 6 really say specific resources, right? They, they kind of mentioned like gold or like 7 metal or whatever, but in passage two, the guy says, 8 let's, let's look for it. Uh, 9 yeah, right here. This is where we talk about the value of the things 10 that you might find in space. Any explicitly says it. 11 There's also the emerging off rural economy to consider the resources that 12 are available in orbit and beyond maybe different to those that be prized on 13 earth. So maybe what we find in space, 14 whatever it is. And we bring it back to earth, maybe it's actually not 15 valuable on earth. 16 So maybe the things we find in space aren't valuable, or they might be 17 different. That's what he explicitly says. 18 The guy in passage, one doesn't explicitly say that out loud, 19 but he thinks it. So we're going to choose letter a here. 20 So at which point about the resources, that would be that, how did that 21 his space is implicit, but explicit passage to, 22 they may be different resources from those that are valuable in art. 23 That's what that paragraph showed us. That if you find something in space, 24 okay, maybe you make a lot of money on it in space, 25 right? For example, water, 26 it was implicit...