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all right Shmoopers have we moved on from tulipmania at least a little bit here

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hopefully okay so let's go to the questions use a passage of disparate [text on screen]

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spawn 158 they're mostly needs what so let's go zoom back to line 58

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all right market a perpetual we have and flowed around such disparate stuff as

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people cards all those boxes in action figures okay so what's the right answer

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well let's see what do baseball cards old lunch boxes and action figures have

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in common nothing or rather they're for the people who clearly need to get [action figures]

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another hobby well they have nothing in common except being awesome yeah no we

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love all that crap all that fine collectible stuff it's not one of the [Darth Vadar action figure]

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answer choices though the clue that disparate means dissimilar is held in [text on screen]

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the previous line there where we're told that all kinds of items have become

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collectible the paragraph does say that the collectibles in question have little

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inherent value but we're told later on that the prices of some of these things

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are high so inexpensive a is a bad choice because a contradicts central

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idea of the text are these items ridiculous B or trivial D well that's a

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judgment call but there's nothing in the text to suggest that they are you got to

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go with the text here not your personal biases lunch boxes are at least useful [trash can]

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sort of via we had a Charlie Brown one with a thermos in it the fact that ours [picture of a lunchbox]

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now has Wonder Woman on it it's a bonus though we swear it makes our peanut [wonder woman lunchbox]

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butter and jellies taste more heroic we like that this seafood yet though [sandwich on a plate]

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the restroom

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