Explanation for Question 29 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 29 asks about the primary function of the seventh and eighth paragraphs in 2 line 65 through 84. So let's look into the passage at this paragraphs and 3 see if we can kind of determine what their function might be in the 4 context of the passage. So we're not going to read through both paragraphs 5 fully, but if you want to, you can go ahead and pause this video 6 and read through them and then restart it. But what we can see in 7 these two paragraphs is they're outlining their observations 8 and their findings and how these observations and findings translate into applicable 9 real world results. You can see that most specifically starting in line 70 at 10 the end of that seven paragraph, it says nice things. 11 The bees were repelled, not by the fragrance itself, 12 but by the abundance of fetal, the data showed that the more Beatles on 13 a flower, the less likely a honeybee was to visit it. 14 And if you remember the reason that this study, 15 it can be found right over here, 16 where they're asking the question, 17 how to attract enough pollinators, but not too many beetles. 18 And this kind of results type thing says not 19 really anything definitive about that, 20 but it says that the way to not do that is to add more 21 fragrance. So kind of ruling out an answer 22 there and not exactly providing a straightforward one, 23 but ruling out an option. So basically all these last paragraphs 24 are doing are outlining the results, 25 the findings, the observations ...