2. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A. "You need to understand math to build things. Any world advanced enough to have the technology to
pick up our signals should also know how to work with numbers." ( Paragraph 6)
B. "And don't forget, it will take years for the light from Lubin's lasers to travel through space in the other
direction. And that star is still moving." ( Paragraph 19)
C. "It's not an equation that you can make predictions with, says Avi Loeb. 'It's an equation that
summarizes what we don't know...he wanted to know when in the history of the universe life would be
most likely to develop?" (Paragraph 24)
D. "Whether they're figuring out the odds that we're alone, or writing messages to aliens and beaming
them out to other worlds, they couldn't carry out this search without turning to numbers." (
Paragraph 30)