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Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  1. About half of all the oxygen we breathe is made near the surface of the ocean by phytoplankton that photosynthesize just like land-dwelling plants.
  2. A team of scientists that includes Boston University experts has discovered they also produce oxygen on the seafloor.
  3. The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms.
  4. The discovery is a surprise considering oxygen is typically created by plants and organisms with help from the sun—not by rocks on the ocean floor.
  5. The deep-sea rocks, called polymetallic nodules, don’t only host a surprising number of sea critters.

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Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The core paragraph is about the discovery that deep-sea rocks produce oxygen: 1 sets up surface oxygen, 5 introduces the nodules, 2 reveals they also make oxygen on the seafloor, and 4 frames this as surprising. Sentence 3 describes the experimental method (chambers enclosing seawater and sediment), which is procedural detail outside the discovery narrative. Odd one is 3.

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