Passage II

An experiment was conducted to determine how seawater temperature and salinity affect food consumption and growth in Scophthalmus maximus (a species of fish). The table shows, for each of 8 trials, average total food consumption, CT, and average gain in body mass for S. maximus kept at various temperature and salinity combinations. Each trial involved the same number of fish and lasted the same number of months.

Table adapted from Albert K. Imsland et al., "The Interaction of Temperature and Salinity on Growth and Food Conversion in Juvenile Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)."@2001 by Elsevier Science B. V.

9. Consider the 4 trials for which the average CT values were less than 45 g. What is the order of these trials from the trial with the least average CT value to the trial with the greatest average CT value?

Answer and Explanation

Your Answer is

Correct Answer is A

Explanation

According to the third column of the chart, find the Ct values ​​less than 45g, which are Trial 4, 5, 6, and 7, and arrange them in ascending order to get the sequence option A.