Explanation for Question 52 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 10
Question 52 says the data presented in the table must directly support which claim 2 from the passage. So let's start by looking at the table and making some 3 conclusions about it. And then we can go look at those lines and see 4 which one best matches maybe one of the conclusions that we make. 5 So if we look at the table, it's measuring, 6 it's showing us the difference between the number of seedlings emerging. 7 When the soil is disturbed in the light versus in the dark. 8 And we can see that on average, 9 a lot more seedlings are going to emerge when the soil is disturbed 10 in the light, we have a maximum of 14 here where 11 we only have a maximum of about three on this side. 12 So let's see if we can maybe find one of those lines of evidence 13 that support that fact. If we look at answer choice, 14 a, it says lines one through three, 15 many millennia before the invention of herbicides farmers simply plowed their fields to control 16 weeds. 17 So answer choice a is going to be incorrect because it doesn't say anything 18 about the difference between light and dark and how that affects the 19 growth of seedlings. If you'd look at answer choice B lines eight 20 through 10, they say ecologists have shown that a farmer's field can have 50,000 21 or more weed seeds per square meter buried beneath the soil surface. 22 So again, this isn't saying anything about the difference between growth in light and 23 dark when that soil is disturbed. So B would be incorrect for that re...