Explanation for Question 47 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 47 says the past is the passage suggests that if Satan had 2 planted wheat or corn on the two agricultural strips and Hartman's experiment, 3 the percentage of the surface of each trip covered in weeds would likely have 4 been wet. So let's look back in the passage and see what they have 5 to say about this. We can 6 find their discussion of this experiment starting in line 56. 7 It said Harmon tested his idea by plowing to agricultural strips near all through 8 housing alters house in Germany, the farmer Carl saidel 9 cultivated one strip repeated threefold at around noon at around midday. 10 And the other strip at night, no crops were planted in these pilot experiments 11 to avoid possible competition with emerging weeds. 12 So if they're not planting crops to avoid competition with merging week 13 emerging, emerging weeds, 14 that means that if they did grow crops, 15 there would be less weeds. Cause if there's competition between the plants, 16 then only the more fit ones are going to survive. 17 So some weeds would die off and some crops would die off, 18 but there would be less weeds growing if there were crops growing as well. 19 So let's look at the answer choices and see which one best matches that. 20 So if we look at answer choice, 21 a, it says the passage suggests that if Satan had planted wheat or corn 22 on the agricultural strips and Herman's experiment, the percentage of the surface of each 23 strip covered with weeds would have likely been lower tha...