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ID: SAT-RW-EI-032
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Expression of Ideas
Topic: Rhetorical Synthesis
Difficulty level: Easy

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

Historian Rosa Villanueva studies two early ways of recording numbers without writing: knotted cords and notched tally sticks.
A knotted cord records a number through the kind and position of knots tied along a hanging string.
A tally stick records a number through notches cut across a length of wood.
Neither system uses written words or number symbols.
Both were used by communities to keep track of goods and of passing days.
Knotted cords were used in the Andes, and tally sticks in many parts of Europe and Asia.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two recording systems. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

ABoth a knotted cord and a notched tally stick record a number physically—in knots or in cuts—without using any written words or symbols.

BUnlike a tally stick, which records a number with notches cut across wood, a knotted cord records one with knots tied along a string.

CKnotted cords and tally sticks were both interesting ways that early communities kept track of things.

DKnotted cords were used in the Andes, while tally sticks were used across many parts of Europe and Asia.

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