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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?
Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 4?
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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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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?