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ID: SAT-RW-EI-037
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Expression of Ideas
Topic: Rhetorical Synthesis
Difficulty level: Hard

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While researching how cities stay cool, a student has taken the following notes:

Researcher Aisha Bello measured midday temperatures in 40 city parks over one summer.
For each park, she recorded how much of the ground was shaded by tree canopy.
Parks with dense canopy stayed close to their surrounding neighborhood's average temperature.
Parks with little canopy were as much as 5 degrees Celsius warmer at midday than heavily shaded parks.

The student wants to emphasize the magnitude of the temperature difference Bello measured. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

ABello's results suggest that cities hoping to keep their parks cool should plant more shade trees.

BBello measured midday temperatures in 40 city parks over one summer and recorded how much of each was shaded. She worked through the whole set of parks one by one before comparing the shaded and unshaded readings against one another.

CIn Bello's survey, the least-shaded parks ran as much as 5 degrees Celsius hotter at midday than the most heavily shaded ones — a striking gap within a single city.

DBello found that the amount of tree canopy in a park affects its midday temperature.

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