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Chemical Equation In The Odyssey
While apparently translated to English, the Odyssey seemed as if it was written in another language. Consequently, while reading the book my mind always became distracted on things I personally found more interesting. About one-eighth of the way through the book, I learned about balancing chemical equations and became obsessed with programming my calculator to solve these problems. Suddenly, the test was two days away and I hadn’t read any further. However, that day a substitute teacher accidently handed the test out to the earlier time period of the class and one student took a picture of it.
Having not read the story, it would have been simple for me to ask for a picture of the test like many of my classmates. In my experience, public high

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