[Video] Q49: An unstated assumption made by the authors about clover is that the plants

Explanation for Question 49 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3

Question 49 says an unstated assumption made by the authors about Clover. 2 Is that the plants? So let's look back in to the passage for 3 direct references to clueless. And we can find that in this first paragraph, 4 in the second column, it says this hypothesis can be best, 5 can best be tested by a trial where in a small number of commercial 6 honeybee colonies are offered a small number of peripheral producing plants, 7 as well as a typical beef food source, 8 such as Clover, while controls are offered only the Clover. 9 So in this case, we can see that this Clover plant is being contracted 10 with the peripheral producing plants, 11 and they're trying to assess the different effects of the plants. 12 So let's look and see which answer choice kind of supports the idea that 13 these two plants are contrary. 14 So answer choice a says the clovers do not produce peripherals. 15 And that might be a really good answer here. 16 If they're contracting Clover with peripheral plants, 17 then obviously Clover plants. Aren't going to do the same job as peripheral producing 18 plants. Otherwise that experiment would really have no point because you're just feeding bees, 19 the same kinds of plants. If we look at answer choice B, 20 it says Clover, is that the plants or an assumption about 21 Clover is that the plants are members of the chrysanthemum genus. 22 So that's going to be incorrect here. If we look back at where they 23 talk about the chrysanthemum genus in the second paragr...