{"id":"cb_question_bank:82fd5c1d-343e-486a-9801-188e6be8b586","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"82fd5c1d-343e-486a-9801-188e6be8b586","external_id":"55b902e4-fa91-44f6-8109-7dc4272cd236","ibn":null,"question_id":"0acc26b2","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"EOI","domain":"Expression of Ideas","skill_code":"SYN","skill":"Rhetorical Synthesis","difficulty":"H","score_band":6,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"key","layout_warning":null,"form_id":null,"module_number":null,"position":null,"stem":"The student wants to make and support a generalization about the orbits of comets. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish these goals?","stimulus":"While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Astronomers estimate that the number of comets orbiting the Sun is in the billions. 81P/Wild is one of many comets whose orbit has changed over time. 81P/Wild’s orbit once lay between the orbits of Uranus and Jupiter. The comet’s orbit is now positioned between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.","stimulus_html":"<p>While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Astronomers estimate that the number of comets orbiting the Sun is in the billions.</li>\n<li>81P/Wild is one of many comets whose orbit has changed over time.</li>\n<li>81P/Wild’s orbit once lay between the orbits of Uranus and Jupiter.</li>\n<li>The comet’s orbit is now positioned between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.</li>\n</ul>","stem_html":"<p>The student wants to make and support a generalization about the orbits of comets. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish these goals?&nbsp;</p>","rationale_html":"<p>Choice D is the best answer. The sentence makes a generalization—that a comet’s orbit around the Sun may change over time—and supports the generalization with the example of the orbit of comet 81P/Wild, which once lay between the orbits of Uranus and Jupiter but is now positioned between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. </p><p>Choice A is incorrect. The sentence emphasizes the number of comets orbiting the Sun and makes a generalization about their orbits, but it doesn’t support the generalization with an example. Choice B is incorrect. The sentence makes a generalization about comets and compares them to the planets Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars; it doesn’t make and support a generalization about comets’ orbits. Choice C is incorrect. While the sentence provides an example of a comet whose orbit has changed, it doesn’t make a generalization about the orbits of comets. </p>","correct_answer":["D"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.351000+00:00","source_updated_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.351000+00:00","options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>Astronomers estimate that the number of comets orbiting the Sun is in the billions; the comets’ orbits may change over time.</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>Like Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars, billions of comets orbit the Sun.</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>One example of a comet is 81P/Wild, whose orbit around the Sun once lay between Uranus’s and Jupiter’s orbits but is now positioned between those of Jupiter and Mars.</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>A comet’s orbit around the Sun may change over time: the orbit of comet 81P/Wild once lay between the orbits of Uranus and Jupiter but is now positioned between those of Jupiter and Mars.</p>","ord":3}],"attribution":{"source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_name":"College Board digital SAT question bank (community dump)","rights_holder":"College Board","canonical_url":"https://satsuitequestionbank.collegeboard.org/","retrieved_from":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank/main/data/cb-digital-questions.json","attribution":"SAT practice questions © College Board, from the official SAT Suite Question Bank. Retrieved via the community dump at github.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank.","disclaimer":"SAT® and PSAT/NMSQT® are trademarks registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, does not sponsor, and does not endorse this project.","license":"College Board copyright; source repository carries no licence. Local use only.","redistributable":false,"item_count":2017}}