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Medium Reading and Writing · Expression of Ideas · Rhetorical Synthesis · MCQ

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

  • In 2018 researchers Adwait Deshpande, Shreejata Gupta, and Anindya Sinha were observing wild macaques in India’s Bandipur National Park.
  • They saw macaques calling out to and gesturing at humans who were eating or carrying food.
  • They designed a study to find out if the macaques were intentionally communicating to try to persuade the humans to share their food.
  • In the study trials, macaques frequently called out to and gestured at humans holding food.
  • In the study trials, macaques called out to and gestured at empty-handed humans less frequently.

The student wants to present the study’s results. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

  1. A

    Macaques in the study called out to and gestured more frequently at humans holding food than at empty-handed humans.

  2. B

    In 2018, researchers who had observed macaques in India’s Bandipur National Park calling out to and gesturing at humans designed a study.

  3. C

    The researchers hoped to find out if the macaques were intentionally communicating to try to persuade humans to share their food.

  4. D

    The researchers studied how macaques behaved around both humans holding food and empty-handed humans.

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