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Practice one SAT question at a time
Questions come from the Bluebook question bank.
- For each data category, the following bars are shown:
- ethylene
- no ethylene
- All data are approximate.
- The Time data for the 4 categories are as follows:
- 14 degrees Celsius:
- ethylene: 8 days
- no ethylene: 11 days
- 16 degrees Celsius:
- ethylene: 6 days
- no ethylene: 9.5 days
- 18 degrees Celsius:
- ethylene: 5.5 days
- no ethylene: 8.5 days
- 20 degrees Celsius:
- ethylene: 4 days
- no ethylene: 5.5 days
- 14 degrees Celsius:
A student is conducting an experiment to test the effect of temperature and ethylene treatment on the ripening speed of bananas. The student treated some bananas with ethylene while leaving others untreated, then allowed both types of bananas to ripen at one of four different temperatures. Comparing the data for bananas with and without ethylene, the student concluded that ______blank
Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the student’s conclusion?