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Question 59·Medium·Rhetorical Synthesis

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

  • Conservation scientist Priya Shah studied whether silica-gel packets could help regulate humidity in museum display cases.
  • Shah placed packets in 12 sealed tabletop display cases and left 12 otherwise identical cases without packets.
  • All 24 cases were exposed to the same daily cycles of changing humidity.
  • During the first day, average humidity in the packet-equipped cases remained within the target range for 19 of 24 hourly readings, compared with 8 of 24 readings in the other cases.
  • By the fourth week, the packets were saturated, and the difference in humidity fluctuations between the two groups was no longer statistically significant.
  • The study did not assess the cost and labor of regularly replacing packets or test their performance in full-size museum galleries.

The student wants to explain how the study supports a qualified claim about the usefulness of silica-gel packets for museum humidity control. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?