Explanation for Question 44 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 44 says the question in the second paragraph in lines 13 through 17 2 serves primarily to what? So let's look at the passage for some context here. 3 The question that they're talking about says this, 4 do the blades of a plow, which can reach more than a foot beneath 5 the soil surface, bring some of these Berry seeds, 6 buried seeds to the surface where their germination is induced by exposure to sunlight. 7 So a few things that we can conclude about this question just based on 8 what's around it in the passage, we can see that in the paragraph, 9 following this question, typically, you're going to provide an answer or kind of a 10 solution. In this case, they're outlining an experiment conducted by these two ecologists 11 to collect information, to be able to answer this question. 12 And then you can see in the paragraph that it's, 13 uh, it's also talking about seeds and the amount of 14 light that they need to grow or sprout or germinate, 15 which is what's asked in the question and also what the experiment is designed 16 around. So let's go and look at the answer choices and see which one 17 best describes the function of this question. 18 If we look at answer choice, 19 a, it says to emphasize the provisional nature of the findings discussed 20 in the passage. So this answer choice is going to be incorrect because 21 the nature of the findings discussed in the passage are not ever described as 22 provisional, right? So provisional in nature would mean like tem...