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100 Cards in this Set
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What numbers assign rank?
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ordinal
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What numbers assign value
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cardinal
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The assumption that more is preferred to less?
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Rationality
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A value on the X axis is called what?
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Abscissa
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A value on the Y axis is called what?
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Ordinate
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A point on the graph which display both these values is called what?
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coordinate
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What is the catalytic factor of production
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Entreprenuer
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The Wealth of Nations set forth priciples of free trade using what doctrine?
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Invisible Hand Doctrine
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What group of economists believed in Free Trade?
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Classical Economists
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When the price of one good is decreased, and it becomes an attractive alternative to another good, the quantitiy demanded is?
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Increased
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Conspicuous Consumption occurs when what effect is reversed?
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Substitution
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The indifference curve of a perfect substitute is, straight, linear, convex, or concave?
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linear
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The point at wich the indifference curve approaches but doesn't touch each axis?
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Asymptote
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Wealth = Goods + Services is what?
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Quantity Theory of Money
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Assuming what is true for the part to be true for the whole?
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Fallacy of Composition
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Reasoning from the particular to the general?
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Inductive
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Reasoning from the general to the particular?
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Deductive
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An analysis which considers all significant variables over a time series?
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Dynamic
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An economic good is ______ and therefore commands a ________.
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scarce and price
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What is the secondary factor of production?
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capital
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Indifference curve
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Edgeworth
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Classical rent doctrine and the labor theory of value
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Ricardo
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Founded the Academy, wrote the Republic
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Plato
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Consumer surplus, theory of the firm
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Marshall
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Wealth of Nations
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Smith
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Law of diminishing returns
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Malthus
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Replace social security with negative income tax
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Milton Friedman
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Quantity theory of money
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David Hume
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Concept of demand, Father of European market
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Monnet
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Educational vouchers. Negative income tax
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Milton Friedman
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Law of supply and demand
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Walrus
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Father of physiocracy
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Quesnay
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Just price just wage
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Capitalism will lead to democratic socialism
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Schumpeter
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Law of diminishing marginal utility, study of natural laws
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Carl Menger
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Law of Comparative Advantage
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Ricardo
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The Utility Theory
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John Stuart Mill
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Business Cycle
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Karl Marx
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He was a demographer and pessimist.
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Malthus
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Single Tax
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Reynold's System
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If it is price then it is a free good?
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False
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When you economize, you minimize input with the given output?
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True
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Economics is an engine for the discovery of concrete truths?
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True
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An ! after an integer is called an absolute value?
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False
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Concept of Division of Labor was first developed by Mencius?
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True
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Plato called his inductive form of logic the dialectics?
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True
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Confucius wrote the Golden Rule?
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True
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Colbert wrote "Discourse on Trade"?
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False
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Aristotle's deductive logic tests used syllogistic logic?
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True
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Plato founded the Lyceum
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False
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Marshall said economices is the study of natural law?
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False
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Capital is the primary factory of production according to Ricardo?
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False
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Jean Colbert was a mercantilist?
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True
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St. Thomas Aquinas believed in just price, just wage?
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True
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Quesnay wrote "Tableau Economique"?
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True
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Malthus believed in comparative advantage?
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False
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To economize is to maximize output with given inputs?
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False
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Ricardo came up with the concept of Comparative Advantage?
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True
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Mills founded the "Utility Theory"?
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True
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If the price of an inferior good was decreased, and your real income increases, you would buy more of that good?
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False
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Plato called his inductive form of logic the dialectics?
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True
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Confucius wrote the Golden Rule?
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True
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Colbert wrote "Discourse on Trade"?
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False
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Aristotle's deductive logic tests used syllogistic logic?
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True
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Plato founded the Lyceum
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False
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Marshall said economices is the study of natural law?
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False
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Capital is the primary factory of production according to Ricardo?
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False
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Jean Colbert was a mercantilist?
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True
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St. Thomas Aquinas believed in just price, just wage?
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True
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Quesnay wrote "Tableau Economique"?
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True
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Malthus believed in comparative advantage?
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False
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To economize is to maximize output with given inputs?
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False
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Ricardo came up with the concept of Comparative Advantage?
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True
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Mills founded the "Utility Theory"?
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True
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If the price of an inferior good was decreased, and your real income increases, you would buy more of that good?
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False
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The fallacy of composition occurs with what type of logic?
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Inductive
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Economic Goods are _______ while free goods are not?
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Scarce
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Minimizing inputs with a given level of output is called what?
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Economy
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A time series of analysis of all significant variables is called?
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Dynamic
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Marginal cost is the slope of?
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Total Cost
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What you wuld have gotten in the best thing you did not do is called?
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opportunity cost
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What is an economist's word for money?
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Money
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What is the frontier line of maximum output capabilities that may be achieved when all available facors of production are being fully employed at their highest and best use called?
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PPC
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Output is called what?
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product
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Economic Rent is a payment to what?
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A factor of production
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What are "Primary Factors"?
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Land and Labor
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What is the "Secondary Factor"?
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Capital
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A factory pollutes a stream as a by product of its production is creating what?
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external diseconomy
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Marxism is distribution according to need, meritocracy is distribution according to?
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scarcity
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A weight decreasing industry would tend to operate near?
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Raw materials
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First person to develop the concept of "Division of Labor"?
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Mencius
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Who proposed the ideal communistic state in The Republic?
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Plato
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Who thought the Lyceum had a better football team than the academy?
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Aristotle
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This Dominican monk and School of Man was the author of Summa Theologica?
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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I'm a "Bullionist" in England, who is my ideological leader?
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Thomas Mun
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My French Mercantilist friends would look up to whom?
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
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A mercantilist would support Nafta?
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False
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Stationary State Doctrine is to Ricardo as Iron Law Of Wages is to Marx?
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Karl Marx
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Who developed the indifference curve to measure ordinal utility?
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Edgeworth
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How many terms are in
4X^7*X+7X^6(X)+9X^5? |
3
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