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You are given an elementary science question along with a few answer options. List all the words from the question that are essential and sufficient for choosing the correct answer option. Keep in mind that essential words are necessary to understand the meaning of the given question. However, non-essential words provide little information needed to select the correct answer. You can think about it like this: If the question was in another language, knowing the meaning of which words were necessary and enough for you to understand the question and answer it?. If your answer consists of multiple spans of words from the question, separate those using a comma (", "). Do not generate any word that is not present in the question. Make sure that your response is contained in the given question and the words are in the same order as the question.
 Grammatical correctness is not important.
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Question: You have three different boxes of cereal that claim to contain 400 g each. To check if this information is true, you use a ___. (A) triple beam balance (B) ruler (C) compass (D) scale?
answer:
three, boxes, cereal, contain, 400, g, check


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Question: Which is a nonrenewable resource? (A) oil (B) trees (C) solar energy (D) food crops?
answer:
nonrenewable, resource?


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Question: Michelle performed an investigation but the results did not match her hypothesis. What should Michelle do next? (A) perform the investigation in a different way (B) change the hypothesis to match the results (C) choose a different investigation (D) repeat the investigation?
answer:

investigation, results, match, hypothesis., next?