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Practice one SAT question at a time

Questions come from the Bluebook question bank.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

  • If a moon orbiting a planet comes close enough to that planet, tidal forces can cause the moon to break apart.
  • In a 2022 study, researchers proposed that Saturn was once orbited by a large moon they named Chrysalis.
  • Their simulations indicated that Chrysalis would likely have come very close to Saturn around 160 million years ago.
  • At that distance, Chrysalis would have been broken apart by tidal forces.
  • The researchers hypothesized that the resulting debris formed Saturn’s rings.

The student wants to recount the sequence of events proposed by the researchers. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?