[Q]: The Securities and Exchange Commission has also initiated an informal probe of Coke .

That federal investigation is separate from an informal inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission .

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[A]: no

Problem: Wwo sentences:
Shares of LendingTree soared $ 5.99 , or 40.1 percent , to $ 20.68 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market .
Shares of LendingTree rose $ 6.21 , or 42 percent , to $ 20.90 after hitting $ 21.36 earlier .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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Answer: no

Here are two sentences:

Energy prices dropped by 8.6 percent , the biggest decline since July 1986 .

Excluding food and energy prices , the PPI fell 0.9 per cent , the biggest drop since August 1993 .
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no

Q: This is just the latest movement in a continuing trend towards open source support of business applications .

This is just the latest movement in a continuing trend toward open-source support among business application vendors .

Please tell me if the sentences above mean the same.
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A: yes

Q:
Do these sentences have the same meaning?
Full classes of 48 are booked through September , he said , and the Transportation Security Administration plans to double its classes in January .
Full classes of 48 each are booked through the end of September , he said , and the agency plans to double its classes in January .

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yes

QUES: Since March 11 , when the market 's major indices were at their lowest levels since hitting multi-year lows in October , the tech-laden Nasdaq has climbed nearly 20 per cent .

Since March 11 , when the markets major indexes were at their lowest levels since hitting multiyear lows in October , the tech-laden Nasdaq has climbed nearly 20 percent .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS:
yes