[Video] Q43: Which choice most effectively establishes that the ucsd students’ approach had solved a problem, mentioned earlier in the passage, relating to burning fuel on earth?

Explanation for Question 43 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question 43 is asking us, which choice most effectively establishes that 2 the UC SD students approach had solved. 3 The problem mentioned earlier in the passage related to burning, 4 right? So we want them to solve a problem that's related to burning fuel 5 on earth. If we read it as it is, 6 it says the larger spherically symmetric droplets burned a longer. 7 So spherically, symmetric, 8 droplets burned longer and gave the students more reliable data. 9 And so here, we're referring to the shape of the droplets, 10 right? If we go earlier in the passage, 11 up here towards the beginning. 12 Yeah, right about here, we can see that there were issues with the droplets, 13 right? The droplet size was too small for combustion rates. 14 And so the size of the droplets was an issue from the beginning. 15 So a actually refers directly to that issue. 16 And so a could be a right answer combustible. 17 So combustible doesn't show us that we've solved the problem, 18 right? Because the problem was related to the shape and the size of the 19 droplets and combustible doesn't relate to the shape and the size of the droplets 20 microgravity influenced. Again, this doesn't show us that we've solved the problem because we 21 need to be talking about shape slash size of droplets and 22 D is wrong. Also for the same reason, 23 the only one that talks about the real issue, the way the droplets were 24 formed and the, what they looked like is answer choice a.