Gas chromatography analysis - number of peaks? This is an example in a Princetown Review prep book. I am not understanding the statement "his separation was only partial (because two different peaks are recorded)." This is implying that Compounds A and B did not separate, but um... there were two peaks? Doesn't that imply that it was separated? 

Unless there is a solvent peak? But I did a lot of Googling, and didn't find any indication that there should be a solvent peak under normal circumstances. 

Why did the example say that the 2 compounds weren't separated despite the fact that there are 2 peaks?
The GC is the instrument used (in this case, although for very small amounts, there is no reason GC couldn't be used to separate materials - assuming collection after detection (via, say, refractive index - for obvious reasons flame ionization, etc. wouldn't be usable)) to determine if his primary separation technique was effective. It wasn't.