Explanation for Question 48 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 48 asks which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. So we know that the answer to the previous question says 3 that the passage suggests that if Satan had planted wheat or corn on the 4 two agricultural strips in Hartman's experiment, 5 the percentage of the surface of each strip covered with weeds would likely have 6 been. And the correct answer for this one is a lower than the percentage 7 that Hartman found. So let's look at these lines of evidence 8 that they give here and see which one proves that if 9 there were crops planted, the percentage of surface covered with weeds would have been 10 lower. So if you look at answer choice, 11 a lines 56 through 60, they say Hartman tested his idea by plumbing to 12 agricultural strips, you know, near ultrasounds in Germany, 13 the farmer farmer, Carl stateful cultivated one strip repeated threefold 14 at around midday and the other strip at, 15 so this answer choice is going to be incorrect because it's not, 16 it's saying something about cultivation and planting. 17 It says you're planting agricultural strips. 18 So that could imply crops, but it's not saying anything about the relation 19 between crops and weeks. So that's why a is going to be incorrect. 20 If we look at answer choice B line 63 62, 21 it says no crops were planted in these pilot experiments to avoid possible competition 22 with the emerging weeds. So we can see the answer choice B might be 23 a good answer because ...