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Expression of Ideas practice question
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Maple syrup is made from the sap of sugar maple trees.
- In late winter, a tap is drilled into the trunk and sap drips into a bucket.
- The sap is about 2% sugar.
- It is boiled for hours until about 40 litres of sap become 1 litre of syrup.
The student wants to describe how maple syrup is made. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- A. In late winter, sap is tapped from sugar maple trunks into buckets and then boiled for hours, reducing about 40 litres of sap to a single litre of syrup.Correct
- B. Maple syrup comes from sugar maple trees.
- C. Sap is about 2% sugar.
- D. Syrup is sweeter than sap.
Answer: A. In late winter, sap is tapped from sugar maple trunks into buckets and then boiled for hours, reducing about 40 litres of sap to a single litre of syrup.
Tapping, then boiling, with the reduction.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Maple syrup comes from sugar maple trees.
- The source, not the process.
- C. Sap is about 2% sugar.
- One fact, no process.
- D. Syrup is sweeter than sap.
- Not from the notes and no process.
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