Answer Choices
Yes, because the data provide evidence that infection with a pathogen caused the colonies to undergo colony collapse disorder.
Yes, because for each pathogen, the percent of colonies infected is greater for colonies with colony collapse disorder than for colonies without colony collapse disorder.
No, because the data do not provide evidence about bacteria as a cause of colony collapse disorder.
No, because the data do not indicate whether the honeybees had been infected with mites.
Explanation for Question 52 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Question 52 says, do the data and the table provide support for the authors 2 claim that infection with Varroa mites increases a honeybee susceptibility to secondary 3 infections. So let's look at the table here and see if we can find 4 any reference to those Varroa mites they're talking about. 5 And we can see by the title of this data table, 6 that this is showing us pathogen occurrence in honeybee colonies with and without 7 colony collapse disorder. And we can see based on that little blur before 8 the passage that colony collapse disorder is characterized by the disappearance of adult 9 worker bees from hives. And then if we look at this bottom paragraph below 10 the table, it says the table above shows for colonies with colony collapse disorder 11 and for colonies without colony collapse disorder, 12 the percentage of colonies having honeybees infected by each of four pathogens and by 13 all four pathogens together. 14 So in this case, we don't see any kind of reference to Varroa mites. 15 We can't infer anything about Varroa mites based on this table. 16 We don't have those included in any of these pathogens here. 17 So long story short, we can't use this data table to support 18 that claim. So based on that fact, 19 we know that in the question, 20 52, both answer choices that say yes are automatically going 21 to be incorrect. And so when we're looking at C and D trying to 22 determine the reason for the fact that the data in the table can't support 23 this claim, we...