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PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?
PSAT 1.3 Reading Diagnostic. The author mentions the navigational technique called "equal altitudes" in the third paragraph to ...what?
PSAT 1.4 Reading Diagnostic. In the fourth paragraph, the author checks his chronometer against the timepieces of other ships in order to...what?
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PSAT 1.3 Reading Diagnostic. The author mentions the navigational technique called "equal altitudes" in the third paragraph to ...what?
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author mentions that navigational technique called equal altitudes in the
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third paragraph Tio what And here the potential answers them
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play navigate illustrate are equal altitude sounds like a new
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sitcom on tvs Couple of commercial airline pilots who are
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polar opposites are forced to get along in equal altitude
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Anyway our narrator utters this phrase and now we have
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to figure out what his purpose wass for doing so
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We assume he didn't just let the words fall out
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of his mouth for no reason Although if you never
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accompanied with general party well nothing happened All right Was
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it a to show how navigation was taught toe amateur
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navigators Well this guy has certainly had enough experience dealing
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with amateur navigators hasn't Yeah No According to our narrator
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the narrator in question was pretty much a bumbling idiot
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and never should have been using this method in the
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first place No it shouldn't be taught to anyone except
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possibly as a cautionary tale So take a hike today
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Next up option b was he explaining that navigation used
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to be an inexact science Only that it was in
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exactly the way that moron was doing it No Our
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narrator doesn't tell us anything about how advanced the science
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of navigation was at the time In general just that
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equal altitude was not the way to go All right
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then let's take c for a spin Was he illustrating
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the great distances that the snark traveled on her Cruz
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Well the distance traveled might have been longer after they
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decided to take the scenic route but either way they
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were in the midst of a pretty lengthy voyage when
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it comes down to it are narrator seems much more
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concerned with conveying the ineptitude of his underlings and he
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is talking about know much of anything else which brings
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us to choice deep he was demonstrating that the captains
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of the snark blacked competence on the nosey Our narrator
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is kati as all get out and isn't above gossiping
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or ratting people out for being intellectually challenged If he
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worked in an office he'd be the guy hanging out
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in the break room telling anyone who will listen that
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a monkey could learn to put together a powerpoint presentation
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more coherent than brenda's So anyway these are answer as
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in dead to rights also coming to tbs this fall
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a delightful comedy about a supreme court judge and the 00:02:38.855 --> [endTime] grim reaper who happen to be roommates
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