Information and IdeasEasy–MediumEvidence for a claim about an invention's spread
Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the mechanical seed drill spread slowly among farmers after its invention.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. Fifty years after the drill was patented, farm inventories in the region listed one on fewer than a tenth of farms.Correct
- B. The drill was invented by a farmer.
- C. The drill sowed seed in straight rows.
- D. The drill was made of wood and iron.
Answer: A. Fifty years after the drill was patented, farm inventories in the region listed one on fewer than a tenth of farms.
Under a tenth of farms after fifty years: slow.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The drill was invented by a farmer.
- Who invented it.
- C. The drill sowed seed in straight rows.
- How it worked.
- D. The drill was made of wood and iron.
- Materials.
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