The following is the introduction to a special e-publication called Determining the Age of the Earth (click the link to see a table of contents). Published earlier this year, the collection draws articles from the archives of Scientific American. In the collection, this introduction appears with the title, “Stumbling Toward an Understanding of Geologic Timescales.”
Answer: Option (b) is the correct answer.
Explanation:
A synthesis reaction is the reaction in which two compounds or atoms combine together to result in the formation of a single compound.
For example, 
Thus, here CaO and
combine together to result in the formation of calcium carbonate compound. Therefore, it is a synthesis reaction.
Therefore, we can conclude that the most likely products of Cao + co2 → CaCO3 reaction.