PP1 (Shorter) Verbal Section 2 (Hard) Q6

The Right Answer

This is an Inference question, as indicated by the phrase "The passage suggests..." Moreover, this is a Multiple-Select problem, in which we must choose at least one answer but up to three. Thus, there are a total of seven possibilities: A, B, C, AB, AC, BC, or ABC.

In rephrasing the question, we notice that it asks us to select choices that LIKELY describe the behavior of two planets that form in close orbits with each other.

Piece of Evidence 1: ...pairs of planets also engage in this slingshot activity, leaving them in disturbed, elliptical orbits.

• In looking at the answer choices, we see that this evidence matches with the second answer choice: change the shape of each other's orbit.

Piece of Evidence 2: ...one will be scattered inward (toward its star), the other outward.

• In looking at the answer choices, we see that this evidence matches with the first answer choice: deflect away from each other.

Piece of Evidence 3: ...travel close enough to neighboring planets to disturb their orbits also.

• In looking at the answer choices, we see that this evidence matches with the third answer choice: affect the orbits of any neighboring planets.

Thus, the correct answers are A, B, and C.

The Wrong Answer

There are no wrong answers to this question.