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may seem like a ton
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All right spyros were on ten of twelve Down May
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seem like a ton All right that's right there That's
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our focus We're going to go down to paragraph four
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skipping all this craft Find writing on top Okay here
- 00:15
we go Since the year fifteen eighty there have been
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- 00:18
two hundred seventy two confirmed attacks by great white sharks
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on humans That may seem like a ton but when
- 00:26
we consider that millions of people under the ocean every
- 00:29
year for recreational purposes it is minuscule in comparison Look
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terrible writing terrible ground Well let's think about this The
- 00:41
phrase in question actually refers to the number two seventy
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two not to the attacks themselves He had weird That
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is since we're talking about a number has compared with
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another number like millions Well we'll need to use language
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that reflects that fact A ton is inaccurate because it
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means two thousand when its weight like how much do
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the people way who were attacked Maybe maybe that would
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work were actually adding up the body weights Of all
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the people who did that they all weighed What would
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that be like Nine pounds Yeah that wouldn't work either
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So it's a lot of attacks It's that's wrong and
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huge There seems to refer to two hundred seventy two
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is a number but huge is too imprecise And thankfully
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one answer choice actually for us to two hundred seventy
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was a large number So it's the most effective description
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here right Though it should read That may seem like
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a large number but when we consider that millions of
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people into the ocean every year for recreational purposes yeah
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okay so that's it It's b and we're done
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