<p><span style="color:#27ae60;"><span style="font-size:20px;">The Right Answer</span></span></p>
<p>This is an <span style="color:#8e44ad;">Inference </span>question, as indicated by the phrase "The passage suggests..." Moreover, this is a <span style="color:#8e44ad;">Multiple-Select</span> problem, in which we must choose at least one answer but up to three. Thus, there are a total of seven possibilities: A, B, C, AB, AC, BC, or ABC.</p>
<p>In rephrasing the question, we notice that it asks us to select choices that LIKELY describe the behavior of two planets that form in close orbits with each other.</p>
<p><b>Piece of Evidence 1: </b><em>...pairs of planets also engage in this slingshot activity, leaving them in disturbed, elliptical orbits.</em></p>
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<li>In looking at the answer choices, we see that this evidence matches with the second answer choice: <span style="color:#27ae60;">change the shape of each other's orbit</span>.</li>
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<p><strong>Piece of Evidence 2: </strong><i>...one will be scattered inward (toward its star), the other outward.</i></p>
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<li>In looking at the answer choices, we see that this evidence matches with the first answer choice: <span style="color:#27ae60;">deflect away from each other</span>.</li>
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<p><strong>Piece of Evidence 3: </strong>...<em>travel close enough to neighboring planets to disturb their orbits also.</em></p>
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<li>In looking at the answer choices, we see that this evidence matches with the third answer choice: <span style="color:#27ae60;">affect the orbits of any neighboring planets</span>.</li>
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<p>Thus, the <span style="color:#27ae60;">correct answers are A, B, and C</span>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;">The Wrong Answer</span></span></p>
<p>There are no wrong answers to this question.</p>