Q2

[clarafok]

hello,

could someone please explain this question to me? i wasn't very clear what it was asking me to compare because passage A doesn't really talk about large-scale climate trends, but the models used to simulate them, right?

thanks in advance!

[ManhattanPrepLSAT2]

The question is asking you to understand the structural role that an element plays.

So, if I said:

"Ted loves apples because they are sweet, and Cara adores coats because they keep her warm."

Ted would be analogous to Cara, loves would be analogous to adores etc.

You are right that the climate trends are what they systems are computing in passage 1. Furthermore, it's a computation that requires factoring in a zillion variables.

What are the systems computing in 2? The complex behavior of a group of ants. Because this plays a similar role, we can say it is analogous.

Hope that helps! Please follow up if I've failed to answer any of your concerns.

[maryadkins]

2. (C)
Question Type: Inference
This question asks that we determine what part of Passage B is most analogous to the climate trends mentioned in Passage A. Climate trends appear in the first paragraph as an example of something large and complex, analysis of which requires enormous calculations. Passage B discusses the mass of ants as a large and complex phenomenon that is most similar to the climate trends. (C) is the correct answer.

(A) is unsupported. The thousands of computers working to solve are not presented as a complex phenomenon to be understood but as a solution to solving large, complex problems.
(B) is unsupported. There is nothing simple or singular about large-scale climate trends. (3-6.)
(D) is unsupported, as well. The climate trends are a factual example of a complex problem, not a social and scientific shift in how problems are solved.
(E) is unsupported. The speed limits are not a large and complex phenomenon.

[sge4]

Something that tripped me up here is that the climate trends make use of variables that have a "wide range of possible values" while ants' "behavior follows a few simple rules." I see why (C) is overall most analogous, but how do I avoid getting thrown off the scent by something like this imprecise match?

[nonenone]

Can somebody help with this:

I picked E. The reason is because when I read the stem I pre-phrased "a problem that parallel computing can help solve."

So I then narrowed to C and E but chose E because I thought it matched the best and moved on.

For some reason this question is bothering me. Can somebody please help with a better way to approach this, especially after you made a pre-phrase similar to what I did?

Thanks!

[jasonleb1]

I chose A both during my initial take and my review because I felt that C didn't properly equate the roles of the ants to the climactic changes. In passage A, the climactic changes are a complex phenomenon that needs to be simulated via parallel computing. But in passage B, the scientists aren't simulating the ants, the ants' behavior is equivalent to that of the parallel computing itself. They play fundamentally different roles so far as I can see. That's why I chose A because it described an actual problem that the parallel computing is being used to address, just like the complex weather patterns in passage A. Can anyone clear this up for me?

[maryadkins]

That's why I chose A because it described an actual problem that the parallel computing is being used to address, just like the complex weather patterns in passage A.

(A) doesn't describe a problem. It describes the computers themselves, which are the solution (see my explanation above).

[wxpttbh]

Can somebody help with this:

I picked E. The reason is because when I read the stem I pre-phrased "a problem that parallel computing can help solve."

So I then narrowed to C and E but chose E because I thought it matched the best and moved on.

For some reason this question is bothering me. Can somebody please help with a better way to approach this, especially after you made a pre-phrase similar to what I did?

Thanks!

I chose E too, But when I look back to the last paragraph in Passage B, I know what E really talks about.
Speed limit is the drawback that the old computing system has which cannot meet the demand of complex phenomena. (what is the complex phenomena? )

Large-scale climate in Passage A means a large and complex phenomenon (So in this means, the role of speed of limit =/ the role of large-scale climate. )

[LSATN100]

I incorrectly chose A in the question. In review, I find that the key to solving this question is to understand the question stem correctly.
"The large-scale climate trends discussed in passage A" is NOT equal to the whole paragraph of discussion about the large-scale climate trends (which is about the models to simulate and predict it).
Instead, "the large-scale climate trends discussed in passage A" = THE TERM "the large scale climate trend" in passage A.
The word "discussed" misled me.