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The ants go shmooping two by two hurrah...

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Hit pause and take another gander at this long passage...

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it's way funnier the ninth time you read it...

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Under normal conditions in Nature, what is the primary method these ants use to guide

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themselves back to the nest?

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And here are the potential answers...

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What's this question asking?

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Well, it specifies that we want to look at ants under normal conditions in nature...

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...which means that we don't even have to worry about the experiment!

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We don't have to read that long, boring passage again!

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If it's too late...sorry.

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But the ACT doesn't spend all of its time trying to figure out mean ways to trick us.

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Actually, for the science questions, all of the answers will be right there on the page.

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We just have to know how to find 'em.

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So what do we have to look for?

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Something about normal conditions, blah blah blah, nature, yada yada yada...

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...how ants get back to a nest...

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There we go. First paragraph, last sentence:

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...ant that is normally dependent on chemical signals for returning to the nest from a food source.

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Well that was convenient. We just got handed the answer.

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According to the passage, ants NORMALLY depend on chemical signals to return to the nest.

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And would you look at that...it's exactly what option A says.

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Let's choose that sucker and move on with our lives.

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