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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Time, a subsidiary of Space-time Continuum, Inc.

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"Time: It makes matter matter."

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Here's a passage about an experiment performed on the communication of honey bees.

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And our question is: "What is the time course of the experiment?"

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Here are the potential answers...

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Sounds pretty straightforward. This question just wants to make sure that we know how to

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understand the experiment that took place.

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So where can we find how long the experiment took?

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That information could be present in the text of the passage,

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but to be real, we're not seeing it here.

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"Sampled the air..." yada yada... "Waggle dancing..." et cetera... Nope.

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The passage isn't specific about how long it took.

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But ah, wait! We've also got a figure full of experiment data.

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In fact, the very tiniest numbers at the bottom are our guide to the horizontal time axis.

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Hang on, let's try something we saw on TV.

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Zoom... and enhance.

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Zoom... enhance.

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Zoom....

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Enhance.

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So, our answer was in the figure. The study clearly went on for more than 18

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minutes, and the only possible answer that's longer than 18 minutes is option D: 19 minutes.

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Have to hand it to the chromatographers for basically sniffing a beehive for 19 minutes.

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Last time we sniffed something for that long, there was a pizza in the oven...

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