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Maria-Marin May 11, 2020

Answer C

Hi, since the user @Samantha had the same problem as me, and she didnt get an answer, im gonna copy her question and wait if someone could please answer it. "I cut it down to answer choice C and E. I ended up choosing C because I thought it didn't explain anything about pants, so even if beetles were able to survive, we don't know if plants were able to. And I thought answer E might resolve the paradox because maybe the beetles survived the first ice age, whereas the warmer plants didn't come till way after. So, I am not sure how I can prevent this mistake in the future on other questions."

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JoshG June 10, 2020

^ Echoing this question because this was my thinking as well.

Previous paradox questions have emphasized the importance of addressing both items in a comparison, but C only addressed the beetles, and no information in the passage necessarily suggests that beetles needed the plants to survive.

In E, couldn't the beetles just be older than the plants that would exist after the glacier disappears, thus resolving the paradox, and not being a correct answer in this bizzaro? Thanks.

:)) September 19, 2020

I also thought the same as above. Can someone explain, please?

SarahT June 19, 2021

^^^ Can someone please answer this question? My reasoning for not choosing E was exactly that same as Joshua's.