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Craft and StructureVery hardPurpose of explaining a method's limit

Craft and Structure practice question

Carbon dating tells us when an organism died, not when the object made from it was made. A beam dated to 1400 may have been felled then and used in a house built in 1450, or salvaged from that house and reused in 1600.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

  1. A. To explain a limitation of carbon dating with an example.Correct
  2. B. To describe how carbon dating is carried out.
  3. C. To argue that carbon dating is worthless.
  4. D. To date a particular house.

Answer: A. To explain a limitation of carbon dating with an example.

What the method cannot tell, shown with a beam.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. To describe how carbon dating is carried out.
No procedure.
C. To argue that carbon dating is worthless.
A limit is not worthlessness.
D. To date a particular house.
The house is hypothetical.

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