Auror_07 wrote:
GMATNinja wrote:
ballest127 wrote:
Hi Experts,
I have a question.
Why B is correct?
I understand that the first bold fact sentence is supported by the previous sentence "A fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite has four holes, which are spaced in exactly the right way for playing the third through sixth notes of a diatonic scale".
So, I think D is correct.
Please explain.
Thankyou.
I have a question.
Why B is correct?
I understand that the first bold fact sentence is supported by the previous sentence "A fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite has four holes, which are spaced in exactly the right way for playing the third through sixth notes of a diatonic scale".
So, I think D is correct.
Please explain.
Thankyou.
In order to conclude that "the entire flute must surely have had more holes," we need evidence directly pertaining to the missingpieces of that flute. However, the passage provides no such evidence.
The existence of four holes is notevidence of three more holes. What if the diatonic scale only had four notes at this point in history? What if this particular bone flute was intentionally created with a partial diatonic scale, not the entire scale? Without any concrete information about the missing pieces of the flute, we don't have any evidence to back up the author's statement (or, for
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