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?
- A. To explain a limitation of carbon dating with an example.Correct
- B. To describe how carbon dating is carried out.
- C. To argue that carbon dating is worthless.
- 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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