PT23.S1.Q18

PrepTest 23 - Section 1 - Question 18

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Some cleaning fluids, synthetic carpets, wall paneling, and other products release toxins, such as formaldehyde and benzene, into the household air supply. ████ ██ ███ █ ███████ ██ ███████████████ ███████ ███ ██ ██ █ ███████ ██ ██████ ████ ███ ██ ████ █████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████ ████████ ███████████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ████ █████████ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ███ ███████ █████████ █████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████████ ████████████ ████ █ ██████ ██████████████ ██████

Stimulus Summary

The stimulus starts by telling us that some products found in houses release toxins into the household air supply. While this isn't an issue if a house is well-ventilated, it is a problem if a house is well-insulated enough to trap these toxins along with heat. The stimulus then mentions some studies showing that houseplants can remove some of these toxins from the air, and cites one study where 20 large houseplants removed all the formaldehyde from a small, well-insulated house.

Analysis and Strategy

To know what we're looking for from this stimulus, it's important to identify what type of question this is. Though the question stem is a bit vague ("as a result" of what?), skimming the answer choices tells us that we are being asked what will most likely happen as a result of a situation similar to what is described in the stimulus, where plants are placed in an insulated house. So this is a Most Strongly Supported question based on the statements given in the stimulus.

For a Most Strongly Supported question like this one, where the stimulus gives us a bunch of facts and not many statements we can chain together into inferences, it makes more sense to go to the answer choices and proceed by process of elimination. That said, it can at least be useful to observe what we don't know: we're told that plants can remove some toxins from a house's air supply, and we are given an example involving formaldehyde. But we should be suspicious if any answer choices claim, for example, that having plants will guarantee the removal of all toxins from a house.

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18.

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