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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
deduce the advance
Transcript
- 00:03
All right Literacy seeking shmoop er's here we go We're
- 00:06
on number four of twelve technologies forever changed the music
- 00:09
industry And let's just get down to a paragraph to
- 00:11
skip one and just go right there Record companies used
- 00:15
to advance some money to an artist to record his
Full Transcript
- 00:17
or for album like we just fix that question and
- 00:21
then they would deduce the advance from the proceeds of
- 00:25
album sales are how do you deduce the advance There's
- 00:29
a typo here That's my guess Well the sentence uses
- 00:35
the word deduced to me subtracting the money advanced to
- 00:39
the artist from record sales Proceed Unfortunately deduces like a
- 00:44
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
- 00:50
that more closely resembles subtract or minus or run taking
- 00:56
away Yeah those might be tempting but minus the advance
- 01:00
isn't a verb but you can't minus something Read act
- 01:05
is what the nsa and cia do on pretty much
- 01:08
every e mail they send like they headed or cut
- 01:10
down parts of it so and that's not on the
- 01:13
mark here So moving on on ly deduct means to
- 01:17
subtract And that's the answer And it's a good guess
- 01:21
here that in real life if you saw this it
- 01:23
would just be a typo because they're hidden either instead
- 01:26
of t at the end So that's it The answer
- 01:28
is being were deducted
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