[Video] Q24: Which choice provides the best evidence for the claim that moore’s group was surprised to observe salt stretching?

Explanation for Question 24 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

Okay, so number 24, let's go into it. 2 So it says which choice provides the best evidence for the claim that Moore's 3 group was surprised to observe salt stretching. 4 So, first of all, you can kind of remember where in the passage you 5 read about this, um, it wasn't until like these lines over here where 6 they even discovered salt stretching. 7 Right. So we know that we're going to be in the, 8 like, you know, 17 to 30 something range or 40 9 something range. Um, so you can already get rid of, 10 you know, let her D right. Cause that's just like way too far beyond, 11 um, let's kind of just go down the line and look at line 17 12 through 38 and see if any of these talk about, 13 um, how they were sort of surprised to observe assault striking so 14 17 through 18. Okay. 15 So we're going to start here. This is 17 through 18, 16 but scientists don't expect this super plasticity in a rigid crystalline material 17 like salt. Well, that really supports the answer, 18 right? I mean, that's literally saying that the scientists did not expect or were 19 surprised, right? Not expecting something in surprise is the same thing to observe 20 soft stretching. Why? Because it's crystal neat. 21 So that's the answer. And you can see that 20, 60, 28 is not going to 22 work. Let's look at that. Uh, it just says they were investigating how water 23 sticks to a surface, such as salt. That's not talking about how they're surprised 24 it doesn't even mention the word surprise or unexpected. 25 And then 36 through 38 says you see an electron microscope can help, 26 uh, see what's happening. No, this isn't, this is not even mentioning the surprise 27 there at all. Right. So you can really see how as the answer here.