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Suppose the author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Artists still record music and people still buy music, but not in traditiona...
Which of the following sentences, if added by the author to the end of Paragraph 3, would serve to close that paragraph most effectively?
The author wants to add a sentence to help conclude Paragraph 4. Which sentence would be the most effective choice?
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Now putting into perspective
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Okay Ct inspires just two more in this great whitey
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section here Focus now putting into perspective It's paragraph for
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skin down to here Since you're a teen physio to
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nurse him to coming around moshe on humans that makes
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him my thanh But when i consider the million people
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in an ocean of iraq is one of the minuscule
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in comparison now putting into perspective the chances of being
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attacked by a shark Humans have a one in sixty
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three chance of dying from the flu and a one
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in three point seven million chance of being killed by
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a shark Oh god terrible grammar but humorous prose There
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All right So after scaring our pants off and probably
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other bodily clothing their passage tells us that sharks aren't
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such killers after all leased not in volume And if
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you go swimming with them when they're from help the
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nightmares well The author presents the statistics in order to
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show how extremely unlikely it is to be killed by
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a shark Or in other words she cites the stats
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Toe put into perspective isn't see there the chances of
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being killed by a shark the use of now banks
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sound So the author is on ly just now going
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to give us the facts So get rid of b
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when the previous two cents has already addressed the same
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idea That last choice d is fine but bit wordy
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and awkward and well nobody wants that So how does
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it read We'd like this to put into perspective the
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chances of being attacked by a shark Humans have a
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one in sixty three chance yada yada So that's it 00:01:38.345 --> [endTime] The answer is c by the sea pilots e
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