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Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC2)
For SC butler Questions Click Here According to government health statistics, Americans born before 1925 develop obesity by the age of 65 only 8 percent of the time, but 35 percent of those born since 1950 did so by age 35.A) Americans born before 1925 develop obesity by the age of 65 only 8 percent of the time, but 35 percent of those born since 1950 did so by age 35.
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B) Only 8 percent of Americans born before 1925 developed obesity by the age of 65; if they are born since 1950, 35 percent develop obesity by the age 35.
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C) Only 8 percent of Americans born before 1925 developed obesity by the age of 65; of those born since 1950, 35 percent developed obesity by the age of 35.
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D) Obesity develops by the age of 65 in only 8 percent of Americans born before 1925, and by the age of 35 by the 35 percent born since 1950.
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E) Of Americans born before 1925, only 8 percent of them have developed obesity by the age of 65, but 35 percent of those born since 1950 do by the age of 35.
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THerefore IMO C