Information and IdeasEasyFinding supporting a claim about a variety's hardiness
Information and Ideas practice question
A grower claims that the new apple variety survives frost better than the old one.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the grower's claim?
- A. After a −6°C night, 90% of the new variety's blossom was undamaged, compared with 40% of the old variety's in the same orchard.Correct
- B. The new variety's apples are larger.
- C. The new variety was bred in a cold country.
- D. The old variety has been grown for a century.
Answer: A. After a −6°C night, 90% of the new variety's blossom was undamaged, compared with 40% of the old variety's in the same orchard.
Same frost, same orchard, much more surviving blossom: hardiness shown.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The new variety's apples are larger.
- Size doesn't bear on frost.
- C. The new variety was bred in a cold country.
- Origin doesn't show performance in this orchard.
- D. The old variety has been grown for a century.
- Age of the variety is irrelevant.
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