PT2.S4.Q2 - The teeth of some mammals show “growth rings”

nc______nc______ Alum Member
edited April 2018 in Logical Reasoning 42 karma

What part of the passage indicates that translucent bands grown in the winter will only be half as long as the opaque bands in the summer?

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  • FixedDiceFixedDice Member
    edited March 2018 1804 karma

    The stimulus doesn't imply that winter bands are invariably half the width of the summer bands. It only implies that the pigs in question died in midwinter: the band widths imply that seasonal lengths were about equal throughout the pigs' lifetime, but the size of the last band was only half of the others'.

  • LawschoolhereIcomeLawschoolhereIcome Member
    258 karma

    I've stared at this question for several minutes and I still don't understand what it's conveying and what it's asking as the question and expecting as the answer. Can someone explain this to me in very simple terms? Since the stimulus states that the last band is translucent, I connected that it would be in the winter but I'm not understanding the distinction between early winter and midwinter. What in the stimulus suggests that it is midwinter?

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