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ACT Aspire English: "Deduce" vs. "Deduct" 0 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
deduce the advance


Transcript

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All right Literacy seeking shmoop er's here we go We're

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on number four of twelve technologies forever changed the music

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industry And let's just get down to a paragraph to

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skip one and just go right there Record companies used

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to advance some money to an artist to record his

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or for album like we just fix that question and

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then they would deduce the advance from the proceeds of

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album sales are how do you deduce the advance There's

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a typo here That's my guess Well the sentence uses

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the word deduced to me subtracting the money advanced to

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the artist from record sales Proceed Unfortunately deduces like a

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sherlock holmes word actually means to arrive at a conclusion

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based on logical reasoning So we're looking for a word

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that more closely resembles subtract or minus or run taking

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away Yeah those might be tempting but minus the advance

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isn't a verb but you can't minus something Read act

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is what the nsa and cia do on pretty much

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every e mail they send like they headed or cut

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down parts of it so and that's not on the

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mark here So moving on on ly deduct means to

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subtract And that's the answer And it's a good guess

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here that in real life if you saw this it

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would just be a typo because they're hidden either instead

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of t at the end So that's it The answer

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is being were deducted

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