Self-study
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Summary
Traditionally people believed only classical Euclidean geometry could correctly represent the universe mathematically. However, scientists now believe that non-Euclidean geometrical representations of the universe are much more useful. In fact, non-Euclidean representations underly the cosmological theory most widely accepted by scientists.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Modern scientists do not believe that classical Euclidean geometry is the only method for representing the universe mathematically.
11.
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a
Scientists who use █████████ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ████ ████████ ██ ████████████ ██████ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ ███████ ████████
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus anything about the beliefs of scientists who subscribe to Euclidean theory. We only know that nowadays most scientists subscribe to a non-Euclidean theory.
b
Scientists generally do ███ ███ ███████ ████ █████████ █████████ ████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██ ██████ █ ███████ ████████████ ██████████████ ██ ███ █████████
This answer is strongly supported. We know from the stimulus that modern scientists believe that non-Euclidean representations are more useful than classical Euclidean theory.
c
Non-Euclidean geometry is █ ████ ████████ ███ ██ ████████████ ███ ████████ ████ ██ █████████ █████████
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus which theory more completely represents the universe. We only know that the non-Euclidean theory is more useful for developing certain areas of scientific theory.
d
An accurate scientific ██████ ██████ ██ █████████ ███████ ███ █████████ ██ █ ████████ ███████ ███ ██ ██████████████ ████████████ ███ █████████
This answer is unsupported. The stimulus does not conclude that the non-Euclidean theory is uniquely correct. We only know that most scientists have found it more useful than classical Euclidean theory.
e
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This answer is unsupported. We don’t know what qualities scientists think are more important in any theory.