[Video] Q48: The main purpose of the fourth paragraph (lines 42-50) is to

Explanation for Question 48 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 48 says the main purpose of the fourth paragraph in lines 42 through 2 50 is to do what? So let's look at this paragraph that they're referencing 3 here and we can see based on the first sentence, 4 the purpose of this paragraph, it says this hypothesis can be tested by 5 a trial. We're in a small number of commercial honeybee. 6 Colonies are offered a number of peripheral producing plants, 7 as well as the typical beef food source, such as Clover, 8 while controls are offered only the Clover. So in this case, 9 the sentence is saying, this hypothesis can be best tested, 10 but it's not saying it has been, or that it will be. 11 It's just saying that it can be. So in this case, 12 they're just kind of proposing an experiment to address the hypothesis that they made 13 in the previous paragraph. So let's look at the answer choices and see which 14 one best goes along with that. 15 So answer choice a says to summarize the results of an experiment that confirmed 16 the author's hypothesis about the role of Clover in the diets of wild type 17 honeybees. So this is going to be incorrect because to say that it's summarizing 18 the results would indicate that the experiment has happened. 19 So based on the fact that that first sentence says this hypothesis can 20 be tested, we can infer that the experiment hasn't happened in therefore there are 21 no results to summarize. Then if we look at answer choice B, 22 it says to propose an experiment to investigate how different di...