#4 - Concept Reference, Must Be True

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (C).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):


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[na02]

Hi,

I'd originally chosen D, but now I see the "prevailing standards" of the time before "now" is not mentioned in the stimulus, hence it doesn't pass the Fact Test.
As for the answer being C, is it because of line 35, where it says secondary occultations became "more commonly reported," and thus astronomers were "less likely then" to have reported them?

Many thanks!

[Brook Miscoski]

NAO2,

Yes, right around that line the author observes that reports of those events became more respectable and thus more commonly reported.