SAT question cbecb873 (Command Of Evidence)

Question

Some whale species practice lunge feeding, in which they lunge toward prey with their mouths open at wide angles, collect the prey and the surrounding water, and then filter out the water through baleen plates in their mouths. Although the volume of water engulfed increases with whales’ body length, the surface area of whales’ baleen plates, which influences the rate at which water can be filtered, does not increase with body length to the same degree, which helps explain why Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?

College Board · Accepted Answer

The correct answer is C. Choice C is the best answer. To support the claim, we need to show that longer whales take more time to filter all the water they engulf than shorter whales do. This choice accurately reflects that a longer whale (the fin whale) takes more time to filter engulfed water (31.30 seconds on average) compared to a shorter whale (the minke whale, which only took 8.88 seconds on average).

Body Length, Filter Time, and Lunges per Dive for Four Whale Species
Whale species	Typical adult body length (meters)	Average time to filter all engulfed water (seconds)	Average number of lunges per dive deeper than 50 meters
fin	18–22	$31.30$	$3.95$
humpback	11–17	$17.12$	$6.28$
minke	7–10	$8.88$	$7.48$
blue	24–34	$60.27$	$4.02$

Explanation

Why the other choices are wrong

SAT Question cbecb873: Command Of Evidence answer and explanation

Explanation

Why the other choices are wrong