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ID: SAT-RW-EI-033
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Expression of Ideas
Topic: Rhetorical Synthesis
Difficulty level: Medium

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

Engineer Selin Aydin studies light-colored coatings that can be painted onto road surfaces.
Dark pavement absorbs most of the sunlight that strikes it and grows very hot, warming the air above the street.
A light-colored coating reflects more of the sunlight, so a coated road stays cooler than bare pavement.
Aydin is measuring how much a coated street lowers the midday air temperature in a test neighborhood.
Light coatings have already been tried on roads in several sunny cities.
Some coatings fade over time and have to be reapplied every few years.

The student wants to specify the goal of Aydin's current experiment. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

ASelin Aydin is looking into ways of making city streets more comfortable during hot weather. On this phrasing the aim is only the broad, comfortable-streets ambition behind the work, not the particular quantity the current experiment is set up to measure.

BSelin Aydin is measuring how much a light-colored coating lowers the midday air temperature over a street in a test neighborhood.

CDark pavement grows very hot in the sun, and some light coatings have to be reapplied every few years.

DLight-colored road coatings have already been tried on roads in several sunny cities.

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