Reading Comprehension

PT159 · S4 · P4 · Q27 Predicting Behavior of Complicated Systems

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The success of modern physics has consisted primarily in the analysis of physical reality into its fundamental components.

Your task

Find what must be true based on what the passage or stimulus states.

Common trap

Answers that are plausible or likely but not actually guaranteed by the text.

Winning move

Keep only the choice the statements fully support — eliminate anything that requires an extra assumption.

27.

Which one of the following statements can most reasonably be inferred from the information in the passage?

  1. If scientists could locate the

    Trap

    8% picked this

  2. At this time complexity theory

    Trap

    3% picked this

  3. Correct

    Biological systems that lack an

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Inference · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

    63% picked this

  4. The relation of cause and

    Trap

    25% picked this

  5. Most nonlinear systems involve liquids.

    Trap

    0% picked this

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