Explanation for Question 30 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 6
Question 30 says and describing squash bees as indifferent in line 68, 2 the author most likely means what? So let's look back into the passage here 3 for a little bit of context. If we look at this sentence, 4 it says squash bees were indifferent and honeybees visited enhanced flowers, 5 less often than normal ones. We can read the sentence before this to get 6 a little bit more context. It says what they saw was double the normal 7 number of beetles on fragrance, enhanced blossoms pollinators to their surprise did 8 not prefer the highly scented flowers. And then it goes on to talk about 9 the indifference and visiting enhanced flowers left less often. 10 So we can see that this indifference is in reference to 11 fragrance, right? The highly scented flowers. 12 So that might help us to eliminate some choices here. 13 And we can also see indifference as kind of like not 14 caring, right? If you see the honeybees here, 15 they're caring, they're visiting the enhanced flowers less often, 16 but if squash bees were indifferent, 17 they didn't care. So they were probably found in equal amounts on both kinds 18 of flowers. So let's look at the answer choices here. 19 So answer choice a says they could not distinguish enhanced flowers from normal flowers. 20 So that might be a good answer choice here. 21 Remember, that's talking about the fragrance like the indifference was referring to, 22 and it's implying that they're not really going to care about the enhanced fragrance 23 flo...