QUES: Shares of GE were slipping 17 cents , or 0.6 % , to $ 28.02 in Instinet premarket trading .

Shares in GE were down 7 cents to $ 28.12 by the close of trading in New York .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: no

[Q]: Subway and bus fares rose 33 percent , from $ 1.50 to $ 2 , on May 4 , while tickets on suburban trains rose an average 25 percent May 1 .

Subway and bus fares rose 33 percent , from $ 1.50 to $ 2 , on May 4 , while average 25 percent increases took effect May 1 on suburban trains .

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[A]: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
White House officials say Iran has one last chance to comply with IAEA inspection demands .
A White House spokesman added that Iran had " one last chance " to comply with its disarmament obligations .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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- yes

Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

Fanned by the hot , dry Santa Ana winds and minimal humidity , major fires were raging in at least 10 places , having already burned nearly 80 937 hectares .

Those hot , dry Santa Ana winds and minimal humidity created optimal conditions for raging fires in at least 10 places that have already burned nearly 200,000 acres .
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yes

Q: It takes 100 of the 150 House members to conduct business .

The Texas house requires 100 of its 150 members to present in order to conduct business .

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

[Q]: China has threatened to execute or jail for life anyone who breaks their quarantine and intentionally spreads the killer SARS virus .
China , haunted by the spread of SARS in its vast countryside , has threatened to execute or jail for life anyone who intentionally spreads the killer virus .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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- yes

[A]:
no