GMAT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 7

Question : 23 of 100

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A satellite sent to explore distant will send a probe into a planet’s atmosphere. On entering the planet’s atmosphere and until it is destroyed three hours later by heat, the probe will transmit back to the satellite an uninterrupted stream of data, which the satellite will retransmit to Earth. The data will take an hour to reach Earth from the satellite. Therefore, because the satellite will not transmit data while receiving data, ___________.
Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the argument?

some of the data sent from the probe to the satellite will inevitably fail to reach the satellite
there is a strong likelihood that much of the data sent from the satellite toward Earth will not reach Earth
during the hours the probe is within the planet’s atmosphere, the only data the satellite will transmit to Earth are data resulting from the satellite’s own observations
scientists on Earth will not have access to the data from the probe for at least four hours after the probe enters the planet’s atmosphere
the first hour of the probe’s descent into the planet’s atmosphere will provide more data than will either the second or the third hour

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