Thanks for the question! That’s not quite the exact reasoning. Look carefully at the wording of (C). She is regularly changing the furnace filter in her daughter’s house. So she’s not doing it to benefit herself, she’s doing it to benefit her daughter. And that makes it fall squarely into the “does the action to benefit other people” category.
(B), on the other hand, is wrong because there was evidence that the act would benefit other people, and the act performed to benefit them. But in the end, the procedure was NOT successful. But the stimulus tells us that one will generally succeed in benefitting them. Because of this mismatch, (B) is incorrect.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
shunheSeptember 14, 2020
Hi @angelasargent,
Sorry, that answer choice should have showed up on another post. To answer your question: Let’s take a look at what the stimulus is telling us. We’re told that basically, we have this way of using amino-acid decomposition in eggshell fragments to date sites. We also know that these eggshells decompose more slowly in cool climates, and so the technique works accurately for up to a million years when we're measuring sites in cooler regions.
Now we’re asked for something that this information provides the most support for. (E) tells us that it supports the idea that fragments of eggshell are more likely to be found at ancient archaeological sites in warm regions of the world than at such sites in cooler regions. Is this a “must be true” based on what the stimulus tells us? So first of all, if the eggshells decompose more quickly in lower climates, one would generally think that there would be fewer of them and thus harder to find them, since more of them would have decomposed in the same time in the warmer places. Even in the best case scenario, there’s just no connection between the probability of finding eggshell fragments and the temperature, which means that (E) (which posits a relationship) isn’t supported by what we’re told, and therefore wrong.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
