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ACT Science: Research Summary Passage Drill 3, Problem 6. Which of the following statements can the scientists conclude from the experiment?

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00:04

The ants go shmooping two by two hurrah, hurrah...

00:10

Ants alive! It's time to pause and review the passage again!

00:14

Sorry to be such a... pest...

00:31

Which of the following statements can the scientists conclude from the experiment?

00:35

And here are the potential options...

00:38

So here's where we combine all of the information we learned from the passage and experiment...

00:42

...and decide what we've learned.

00:43

Well, first of all...the conclusion has to be true.

00:46

The ants were NOT the most effective at bringing leaves to the nest

00:50

on the first day...so option A is out.

00:52

The passage also didn't say anything about relying on each other to forage leaves.

00:57

Teamwork, sure, but ants aren't as lazy as most of us... and will actually do their own work.

01:03

So we can cross off option C.

01:04

A conclusion also has to be an interpretation of what we learned from the experiment,

01:09

not just a restatement of the data.

01:12

Option D says that ants used pheromones to guide themselves back on days 3 and 4, but

01:17

anyone can see that from the graph.

01:19

We want a conclusion that requires deduction, reasoning, inferences...

01:23

all of the good stuff that science teachers love.

01:26

Option B is a statement that answers the original question of the experiment: can the ants get

01:31

back to their nest using a different path?

01:33

And our conclusion, deduced from hours and hours of research and hundreds of falling

01:37

ants is well...yes they can!

01:39

Over time, the ants learned how to return to their nests by a different route from which they came.

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So option B's the answer.

01:46

Sorry to throw "bees" into the mix...

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