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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by flexible dough.

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We once tried to keep up with it in yoga class, and our lower backs have never been the same.

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For the sake of logic and coherence of the paragraph, Sentence 5 should be placed where?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Paragraph 3 gives us a rundown of the entire fortune cookie baking process.

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Sentence 5 explains what happens when a fortune cookie has totally cooled.

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Let’s take a quick tour of the possible answers to see which one places this sentence

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in the most logical location.

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There’s no way (B) is the right answer.

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Sentence 1 introduces the idea that we’re about to find out how these gentlemen worked

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the miracle of placing fortunes inside fully baked cookies.

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Jumping to the end of the baking process with Sentence 5 would be random, especially when

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the following sentences detail steps that occur before the cookies cool.

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Choice (C) also jumps the gun.

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Sentence 3 tells us the content of cookie batter, and Sentence 4 details what happens

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during the flexible doughy stage of fortune cookie making.

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Option (A) doesn’t work either. Leaving Sentence 5 where it is now is a bad idea.

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Sentence 4 is about the flexi dough stage, and Sentence 6 begins by describing how early

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fortune cookie makers molded flexi dough.

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Choice (D) is the way to go.

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The end of Sentence 6 takes us to the cooling phase of the fortune cookie making process,

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so it’s logical for the next sentence to describe what a fortune cookie looks like

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after it’s cool.

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