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ID: SAT-RW-EI-039
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Expression of Ideas
Topic: Rhetorical Synthesis
Difficulty level: Medium

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While researching how temperature affects crop yields, a student has taken the following notes:

Botanist Priya Nair grew the same variety of tomato in two greenhouses for a full season.
Greenhouse A was held at a steady 25 degrees Celsius, day and night.
Greenhouse B was warmer by day and cooler by night, ranging from 18 to 28 degrees Celsius.
The plants in Greenhouse A produced ripe fruit about two weeks earlier in the season.
The plants in Greenhouse B produced more fruit in total by the season's end.

The student wants to emphasize a trade-off that Nair's experiment revealed. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

ANair's experiment showed that temperature has an important effect on how tomato plants grow and produce fruit. On this summary temperature simply matters a great deal to how the plants grow and fruit, a broad conclusion that names no cost set against any benefit.

BThe steady-temperature greenhouse yielded ripe tomatoes about two weeks sooner, but the greenhouse with warmer days and cooler nights produced more fruit overall.

CIn Greenhouse B, temperatures ranged from 18 to 28 degrees Celsius, while Greenhouse A stayed at a constant 25 degrees Celsius.

DNair found that keeping a greenhouse at a steady 25 degrees Celsius let tomato plants ripen their fruit about two weeks earlier.

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