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Answers to Practice Exercises: Fortunate and Fortuitous

(a) "Let's picture a classroom where the more fortunate students know at least 90 percent of the words being used by a teacher or in a textbook. That enables them to gain knowledge about the other 10 percent of words that they did not already know."
(E. D. Hirsch, The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools, 2009)

(b) This hour-long documentary is the story of a single photograph: a fascinating tale about a fortuitous moment frozen in time.

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