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PSAT 1.5 Reading Diagnostic. Which sentence from the passage provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?


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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop too sure

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brought to you by the hawaiian islands The really old

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ones have tow walk with a volcano All right check

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the passage on their camp in a cabin and find

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camden snarks Next clock Done All right All right From

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nam for a nanometer Hey come on Thirty one seconds

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All right Thank you Jack london Which sentence from the

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passage provides the best evidence for the answer to the

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previous question and hear the potential answers One Okay easy

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enough We just need to locate sense that supports the

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answer to the previous question What previous question Good question

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Who's Quick refresher In the fourth paragraph the author checks

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his chronometer against the time pieces of other ships in

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order Tio what Oh yeah Well it's all coming back

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to us now as we determined it was essential to

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verify that his navigation tool was in proper working order

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and just you know colorful plastic replica from toys r

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us or something Right So now our question is which

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line from the passage backs that up We're looking over

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our answer joyce is our first thought is that we

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don't remember there being that many ellipses in the passage

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of course here the ellipses indicates that some stuff is

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being left out I either only given us the first

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and last few words of each line and it's up

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to us to do the dirty work All right you

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know problem We love getting dirty We never met a

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month ago We didn't like Well let's start with option

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a this he told me he had done Of course

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he had done nothing of the sort And he told

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me that the difference he had ascertained was only a

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small fraction of a second Okay So hear he's jumping

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on his captain again for not knowing his rear nether

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region from his elbow But he already knew that No

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big surprise This line does more to support the idea

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that the inmates are running the asylum or a ship

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than it does accentuate the importance of the proper tools

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All right what about b He told it to me

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with finally simulated joy and with words of praise for

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my splendid time keeper Well that he and question is

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captain who's So anything he might have to say with

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regard to the chronometer is effectiveness isn't gonna make any

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difference whatsoever to our narrator He's not going to make

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us next up is d captain willie The harbormaster gives

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the time to suva firing a gun Signal it twelve

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noon three times a week good to know that this

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would be a great answer if we were merely trying

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to get to know captain willie a little better and

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we're sure he's just lovely But when and how many

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times he fires his gun signal has nothing to do

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with the accuracy of the timepiece So fire away Captain

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will be over here Well then it has to be

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c right That is to say if i were sailing

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west in the nighttime in my position according to my

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dead reckoning from my afternoon chronometer sites it was shown

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to be seven miles off the island Why at that

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very moment i would be crashing on the reef Well

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fortunately yes this is the right one on the money

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See is our answer This line totally points out the

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importance of having your chronometer meet oring properly If it

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isn't well you could wind up dashed the bits on

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the reef And as much as our narrator may not

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mind something like that happening to his crewmates likely wouldn't 00:03:19.305 --> [endTime] want teo go down with the ship

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