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_______ students tried to sign up for Professor Ling's biology course because she is such an engaging lecturer.

Eighty-seven

_______ percent of those students will be assigned to another professor's class.

Fifty

Asia, the world's largest continent, encompasses more than _____ square kilometers.

44.5 million

The third-largest

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The Dead Sea, between Jordan and Israel, is the world's lowest point at _____ meters below sea level.

408

She told us that ______ of the biology text would require extra attention in the coming week.

Chapter 19

A number of people in our class have returned to college after raising their families, so the average age of the students is ______.

thirty-two

Of the 260 aboriginal languages identified in Australia in the twentieth century, less than _____ percent now have enough speakers to guarantee the survival of the languages.

10

These big box outlets are Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards.

big-box

Edward Arlington Robinson's "Collected Poems" was the first book to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, in 1922. My favorite poems by Robinson are Miniver Cheevy and Mr. Flood's Party.

neither

Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, uses the word telegraphic to describe the style of the Gettysburg Address. In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. often uses the word hope while he explains his principles.

neither

In German, fressen refers to how animals eat; essen to how humans eat. At a family gathering, a German mother might say to her child, "Don't fres." In German, fressen refers to how animals eat; essen to how humans eat. At a family gathering, a German mother might say to her child, "Don't fres."

neither is correct

What is the difference between a bar mitzvah and a confirmation? What is the difference between a bar mitzvah and a confirmation?

neither is correct

Our biology instructor estimated that the ratio of As to Cs on the midterm exam was _____.

10:1

_____ aboriginal languages were identified in Australia in the twentieth century, but many have since become extinct.

Two hundred sixty

The corporate headquarters remains in Georgia in two high rise buildings outside Atlanta

high-rise

The largest of these home improvement retailers is Home Depot

home-improvement

The second largest and oldest of the companies is Lowe's, founded in 1946 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

second-largest

An area that receives less than _____ inches of rain a year is considered a desert.

ten

of the home repair retailers is Menards, founded in 1959 and headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

home-repair

While Lowe's began as a small-town operation, it adopted the big-box format in the 1980s on account of the competitive pressures from Home Depot

No revision is necessary.

For the many do-it-yourselfers who spend their spare time completing home repairs, remodeling, and landscaping, three major retailers compete to serve their needs

No revision is necessary