Question ID 85439572 1.
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SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 85439572
Roasted green chiles are a popular ingredient in Southwestern cuisine, but the traditional roasting method of
burning propane is not environmentally friendly. To see if solar power could provide a better alternative, engineer
Kenneth Armijo and his team roasted batches of green chiles using between 38 and 42 heliostats, which are
devices that concentrate sunlight. The team was successful in reaching the same roasting temperature used in
traditional propane roasting, but they found that propane yielded faster results. While the fastest solar-roasted
green chiles took six minutes, batches using propane took only four. Armijo hypothesizes that they can reduce the
roasting time for solar-roasted green chiles by using more heliostats.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support Armijo’s hypothesis?
A. The temperature inside the roasting drum is distributed more evenly when roasting green chiles with solar
power than with propane.
B. Attempts to roast green chiles using 50 heliostats yields results in fewer than six minutes.
C. Green chile connoisseurs prefer the flavor of solar-roasted green chiles over the flavor of propane-roasted
green chiles.
D. The skins of solar-roasted green chiles are easier to peel than the skins of propane-roasted green chiles.
Question ID e7dc27dc 1.5
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: e7dc27dc
As a monthly newsletter formed in 1969 by a group of Asian American students at the University of California, Los
Angeles, Gidra helped raise awareness about social and political issues concerning the Asian American
community on campus and at large. The newsletter had an expansive reach for a publication of its kind: around
4,000 copies were published each month. A student writing a history paper, however, hypothesizes that Gidra’s
influence cannot be measured by the number of newsletters published monthly alone.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s hypothesis?
A. The students who initially formed Gidra each contributed financially to its creation.
B. In addition to covering current events, Gidra also featured works of art and literature.
C. Gidra was initially based out of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA.
D. People would often give their copies of Gidra to others once they had finished reading an issue.
Question ID 40578580 1.8
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 40578580
Many scientists have believed that giraffes are solitary creatures, preferring to spend their time alone instead of
with others. But observations of giraffes and their behavior in recent years has suggested that these animals may
be more social than we once thought. For example, scientists Zoe Muller and Stephen Harris claim that giraffes
may even help each other care for one another’s newborns.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support Muller and Harris’s conclusion?
A. Female giraffes have been observed feeding young giraffes that aren’t their direct offspring.
B. Confrontations between a younger and an older male giraffe are frequently observed.
C. Some female giraffes have been observed sniffing and licking their newborn offspring.
D. Giraffes are able to make sounds but are rarely observed communicating with others.
Question ID 26ee16ba 1.17
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 26ee16ba
Hip-hop pedagogy is a form of teaching that’s gaining popularity across school subjects. It involves incorporating
hip-hop and rap music into lessons as well as using hip-hop elements when teaching other subject matters. For
example, Quan Neloms’s students look for college-level vocabulary and historical events in rap songs.
Researchers claim that in addition to developing students’ social justice awareness, hip-hop pedagogy
encourages student success by raising students’ interest and engagement.
Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the underlined claim?
A. Students tend to be more enthusiastic about rap music than they are about hip-hop music.
B. Students who are highly interested in social justice issues typically don’t sign up for courses that incorporate
hip-hop and rap music.
C. Educators report that they enjoy teaching courses that involve hip-hop and rap music more than teaching
courses that don’t.
D. Courses that incorporate hip-hop and rap music are among the courses with the highest enrollment and
attendance rates.
Question ID 7fdba7ad 1.25
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: 7fdba7ad
The Milky Way galaxy is composed of millions of stars in a relatively flat structure containing a thin disk and a
thick disk. Based on computer simulations and analysis of data on the brightness, position, and chemical
composition of about 250,000 stars in the thick disk (collected from two telescopes, one in China and one
orbiting in space), astrophysicists Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix claim that the thick disk of the Milky Way
formed in two distinct phases rather than a single one.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?
A. The telescopes used by the researchers have detected stars of similar ages in galaxies other than the Milky
Way.
B. There’s an age difference of about 2 billion years between certain stars in the thick disk.
C. The thin disk contains about twice as many stars that can be seen from Earth as the thick disk does.
D. The stars in the Milky Way tend to have very similar chemical compositions.
Question ID c384987b 1.29
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Information and Command of
Ideas Evidence
ID: c384987b
Scientists have long believed that giraffes are mostly silent and communicate only visually with one another. But
biologist Angela Stöger and her team analyzed hundreds of hours of recordings of giraffes in three European zoos
and found that giraffes make a very low-pitched humming sound. The researchers claim that the giraffes use
these sounds to communicate when it’s not possible for them to signal one another visually.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support Stöger and her team’s claim?
A. Giraffes have an excellent sense of vision and can see in color.
B. The giraffes only produced the humming sounds at night when they couldn’t see one another.
C. Wild giraffes have never been recorded making humming sounds.
D. Researchers observed other animals in European zoos humming.
