7/8
TLE
Agricultural Crop
Production
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Farm Tools, Equipments and
Preventive Maintenance
TLE– Grade 7/8
Self-Learning Module
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Farm Tools, Equipment and Preventive Maintenance
First Edition, 2020
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7/8
TLE
Agricultural Crop Production
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Farm Tools, Equipment and
Preventive Maintenance
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Welcome to the TLE Agricultural Crop Production Grade 7/8 Self Learning Module
(SLM) on Farm Tools, Equipment and Preventive Maintenance
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What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help
you master and identify tools, equipment and preventive maintenance of farm tools
and equipment. The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different
learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of
students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course.
But the order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the
textbook you are now using.
The module focuses on:
Lesson 1: Farm Tools and Equipment
Lesson 2: Preventive Maintenance of Tools and Equipment
Lesson 3:Procedures in Cleaning, Sharpening, and Oiling of farm Tools and
Equipment
Lesson 4: Storing Farm Tools and Equipment
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Identify farm tools and equipment according to use,
2. Use appropriate tools or equipment for the job requirement according to
manufacturer’s specification and instruction,
3. Conduct pre-operational check-up in line with the manufacturer’s manual,
4. Perform routine check-up and maintenance,
5. Clean tools and equipment after use in line with farm procedures,
6. Perform preventive maintenance by following the procedures in sharpening
and oiling farm tools and equipment; and
7. Store tools and equipment in designated areas in line with farm procedures.
8. Choose the correct and proper storage of tools and equipment.
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What I Know
Pre-Assessment
Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on your answer sheet.
1. Why do farm tools consider very important in agricultural crop production?
a. They make work easier.
c. They make work faster.
b. They save time and effort.
d. All of the above.
2. Which of the following is an example of digging tool?
a. Pruning shear
b. Bolo
c. Crowbar
d. Grub Hoe
3. Which of the following is the correct storing of tools?
a. store in a wet place
c. store near the playground
b. store in a clean and dry area
d. leave it in the garden
4. Which among the tools resembles the appearance of spoon and use for
transferring soil?
a. Shovel
b. Spading fork
c. Spade
d. Grub hoe
5. Which tool is used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and
herbicides?
a. Pail
b. Dipper
c. Sprinkler
d. Sprayer
6. Which of the following is the importance of storing tools and equipment?
a. Improves appearance of working areas
c. It improves one self
b. Improves the community
d. It improves your tools
7. Which of the following should you properly store tools?
a. in a jar
b. in their original cases c. in a pail d. in the garden
8. Which of the following tools is used for inter row cultivation?
a. Hand fork b. Pruning shear
c. Spading fork
d. Rake
9. Which of the following is used for cutting bigger size post?
a. Knife
b. Axe
c. Pruning shear
d. Hand cultivator
10. Why is it important to put oil to your tools and equipment?
a. to prevent from rusting
c. to make it shiny
b. to make it sharp
d. to make it dull
11. Which of the following should you store your tools?
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a. in a jar
b. in their original cases
c. in a pail d. in the garden
12. Which of the following is used for cutting bigger size post?
a. Knife
b. Axe
c. Pruning shear
d. Hand cultivator
13. Which of the following is the importance of storing your tools and equipment?
a. Improves appearance of working areas
c. It improves one self
b. Improves the community
d. Improve your tools
14. Why is it important to put oil to your tools and equipment?
a. to prevent from rusting
c. to make it shiny
b. to make it sharp
d. to make it dull
15. Which of the following tools is used for inter row cultivation?
a. Hand fork b. Pruning shear
c. Spading fork
d. Rake
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Lesson
1
Farm Tools and Equipment
Objectives:
1. Identify Farm Tools and Equipment according to use; and
2. Use appropriate tools or equipment for the job requirement according to
manufacturer’s specification and instructions.
What’s In
Answer the following questions below.
1. How do you define Standard Operating Procedure?
2 How does Standard Operating Procedure help in your work place?
3. What is the significance of Standard Operating Procedure?
What’s New
Direction:
Identify and list down the names of Farm Tools and Equipment you see in
the pictures below and write your answer on a separate ½ sheet of paper.
What farm tools are in the pictures you are familiar of? What are their
functions? How helpful are these tools in farming?
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What is It
Farm tools, implements, and equipment play very important role in
agricultural crop production. In order to do crop production operation successful,
operator must have a good working knowledge of the tools, implements and
equipment.
Farm Implements
These are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or mounted
to machineries (hand tractor, tractor) which are usually used in the preparation of
land. These are usually made of a special kind of metal.
FARM
Native Plow
IMPLEMENTS
Plows
A farm implements either
pulled by a working animal or a
tractor and is used for tilling
large areas, making furrows and
inter row cultivation.
Disc Plow
Native Wooden Harrow
Harrow
The
native
wooden
harrow is made of wood with a
metal teeth and pulled by a
carabao while disc harrow is
made of metal mounted to a
tractor. It is used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.
Rotovator
An implement mounted to
a tractor used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.
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Disc Harrow
Rotavator
Hand Tools
Hand tools are usually light and are used without the help of animals or
machines. They are being used in performing farm activities which involve small
areas like school garden and home garden.
FARM TOOLS
Bolo
Crowbar
Used for
digging big
holes and
digging out
big stones
and stumps.
Used for chopping
branches of tree
and cutting tall
grasses and
weeds.
Grab-Hoe
Used for breaking
hard topsoil and
pulverizing soil.
Spading Fork
Used for
loosening the soil,
digging out root
crops and turning
over the materials
in a compost
heap.
Hand Fork
Used for
inter row
cultivation.
Knife
Used for
cutting
planting
materials.
Water Pail
Used for hauling
water, manure
and fertilizers
Spade
Pick Mattock
Used for
digging big
holes and
digging out big
stones and
Shovel
Used for
removing trash
or soil, digging
canals or ditches
and mixing soil
Light Hoe
Used in removing
trash, moving soil
and mixing soil
media.
Rake
Used for
cleaning the
ground and
leveling the
topsoil.
Used for loosening
and leveling soil
and digging out
furrows for
planting.
Hand Cultivator
Used for
cultivating the
garden plot and
removing weeds
around the
plant.
Sprayers
Pruning Shear
Used for
cutting
unnecessary
branches of
plants.
Sprinkler
Used for
watering
seedlings and
young plants.
Used for
spraying
insecticides,
foliar fertilizers
and fungicides
WheelBarrow
Used for hauling
trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting
materials and
other equipment.
Hand Trowel
Used in loosening soil
around the growing
plants.
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Axe
Used for
cutting
bigger size
post
COMMON FARM EQUIPMENT
These are machineries used in crop production. They are used in land
preparation and in transporting farm inputs and products. This equipment needs a
highly skilled operator to use.
FARM
EQUIPMENTS
Hand Tractor
Used to pull a plow
and harrow in preparing a
large area of land.
Four Wheel Tractor
Is used to pull disc plow
and disc harrow in preparing
much bigger area of land.
Water Pump
Used to draw irrigation
water from a source.
Thresher
A machine used for
separating grain crops into grain
or seeds and straw.
Corn Dehusker
A machine used to peel
the skin or corn and make the
maize removed from the cob.
Rice/Corn Harvester
Combined six
operation
such
as
gathering,
transporting,
reaping, threshing, cleaning
and bagging into one
machine.
Grass Cutter/Lawn Mower
Used to cut a lawn to an
even height.
Rice Seeder
Used
for
sowing
germinated paddy seed directly in
wetland field.
Milling Machine
Used to grind a grain.
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What’s More
Activity 1.1 Fit Me In!
Direction:
Identify and put a check (/) on the box for the appropriate tools or equipment
to be used for the following Farm operation.
1. Breaking hard topsoil and digging canals.
Spade
Pick-mattock
2. Cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
Rake
Hand Cultivator
3. Loosening the soil around the growing plants.
Hand Fork
Hand Trowel
4. Cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of tree.
Axe
Bolo
5. Watering seedlings and young plants.
Sprinkler
Water Pail
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B. Give the name and the function of the following farm tools and equipment.
TOOLS/EQUIPMENT
NAME
FUNCTION
1.
2.
3.
What I Have Learned
Activity 1.2
Fill in the Venn diagram: Write your answer on a ½ sheet of paper.
Farm Tools
Farm
Equipment
Farm
Implements
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What I Can Do
Activity 1.3 FILL Me!
Direction:
Complete the table below by listing the appropriate tools and equipment
needed for the following farm operation. Write it on a separate sheet.
Activities
Tools Needed
1. Land preparation for planting
rice
2. Land preparation for planting
corn
3. Land preparation for planting
vegetables
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Lesson
2
Preventive Maintenance of
Tools and Equipment
Objectives:
1. Conduct pre-operational check-up in line with the manufacturer’s manual, and
2. Perform routine check-up and preventive maintenance.
What’s In
Conducting a pre-operational check-up of your farm tools and equipment is a
must. Although its time consuming, it will help farm works better. By conducting a
check-up, you will be able to detect defects and any broken parts of tools and
equipment. It will also ensure safety and prevent further damage.
Let’s try answering the following:
1. Can you enumerate farm tools? What are those?
2. Is it important to have enough knowledge on how to use the farm tools?
Why? or Why not?
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3. How can a farm tool help the farmers?
4. How can you say that knowing the function of a farm tool is important?
5. What are benefits that a farmer can get if farm tools and equipment are
well-maintained?
What’s New
Examine the pictures and answer the following questions.
1. How can you describe the pictures?
2. What are the similarities that the
pictures have?
3. What specific ideas that pictures
express?
4. How does the picture relate in
farmers’ daily routines?
5. Is it important to master the steps that
the pictures show?
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What is It
In modern days, equipment are considered as part of human body in doing
various tasks. More specifically, farmers integrate technologies in farming. As time
passes by, a lot of studies and ideas occur to help farmers in terms of proper routines,
check-ups, and cleaning procedures to maintain their tools and equipment even after
using it.
Key Points to Remember in Conducting a
Pre-Operational Check-Up
Before operating any piece
of equipment, begin with a
visual look of the working
area. Make sure it is level
and clear of obstruction.
1
2
Walk around the vehicle and
take note any wear or
damage to tires, hoses, forks,
attachments, chains, reels
and hold downs.
Check the fluid levels including
the fuel before starting the
vehicle. Also check the coolant,
engine oil, hydraulic oil and
windshield wiper fluid.
4
Put on the seatbelt and reach
all controls and see all
gauges and indicator lights.
3
All mirrors and windows are
clean and not cracked to
provide the operator clear
visibility on all sides.
Start the machine and
ensure that all gauges,
lights, flashes, horn and
windshield
wipers
are
operational.
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8
6
Never permit riders on
tractors or other machinery.
Always stay aware of your
surrounding at all times.
Test the responsiveness of the
steering and brakes by
moving the vehicle a short
distance.
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Steps in Conducting Preventive
Maintenance
Step 1. Prepare all
the materials
needed to clean
and sharpen
whetstone, oil and
rags.
Step 2. Select a
safer place where
you can position
your tools steadily.
Step 3.
Dismantle
cutting tools
like hedge
shears before
cleaning.
Step 4.
Carefully
remove rust.
Step 5. Clean
tools thoroughly
and keep it in a
dry place.
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What’s More
Activity 2.1 Cite Me In!
A. Fill in the boxes below. Cite in every box the benefits that you can get in
cleaning and maintaining farm tools and equipment.
1.
3.
5.
2.
4.
B. Fill in the boxes below. Cite in every box the possible hazards that could
happen if farm tools and equipment are not properly maintained.
1.
3.
5.
2.
4.
What I Have Learned
Activity 2.2
Answer the following questions below. Write your answer on a ½ sheet of paper.
1. Why is it important to clean and maintain farm tools after use?
2. Is it necessary to follow the procedures to maintain farm tools? Why or Why
not?
3. What are the things you need to consider in maintaining farm tools?
4. What will happen if you don’t follow the steps or procedures in cleaning and
maintaining farm tools? Give specific scenario that might happen when you
don’t follow the steps or procedures.
5. How can well-conditioned farm tool help farmers? State one scenario.
What I Can Do
Activity 2.3 It’s Showtime!
Ask a help from someone who can act and show the procedures of cleaning
tools and equipment and in conducting check-up and maintenance. Take a picture
that shows each procedure and make a scrapbook.
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Lesson Procedures in Cleaning, Sharpening,
and Oiling of Farm Tools and
Equipment
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Objectives:
1. Clean tools and equipment after use in line with farm procedures, and
2. Perform preventive maintenance by sharpening and oiling farm tools and
equipment.
What’s In
Time flies, agricultural ways have evolved, and farmers invented tools and
equipment that play significant role in farming to help them produce good harvest.
It is very important to know how to maintain tools and equipment for the success in
farming. In this module, you would be able to know the necessary steps to keep your
farming tools and equipment maintained.
1. What are the examples of farm tools?
2. How can a farm tool help farmers?
3. What are the procedures that farmers do before using their farm tool?
4. How can the farmers maintain their farm tools?
5. What are the advantages of well-maintained farm tools?
What’s New
Direction:
Describe the following pictures briefly. Write your answer on your activity
sheet.
1.
2.
Guide Questions
3.
4.
5.
1. What can you say about pictures 1 and 4? How about 2,3 and 5?
2. How are pictures related to each other?
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What is It
Cleaning tools and equipment is important thing to prevent danger in the
workplace. Basic steps or procedures should be the utmost concern of this lesson.
The goal is to keep the tools and equipment organized and well- managed.
Maintaining farm tools makes them last longer, efficient and reduces the risk
of injury.
Wipe and spray
with oil and put tools in
a pail to keep them
clean and sharp.
Hang tools well.
Scrub
away
stubborn soil and use
paint thinner to remove
sap and pitch.
Rinse off mud
and soil with a
garden hose.
Wipe tools dry
with a rag or
towel.
Start Here
The Road Map in
Cleaning Farm Tools.
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Store tools in the
original cases
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6
Put Silica gel
Dry tools after
use
5
Wooden handles
should be strong
4
3
2
1
Hang your
garden tools.
Oil or grease metal
parts.
Sharpen tool before and
after use.
Start
Here
Procedures in Sharpening
and Oiling Farm Tools and
Equipment
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What’s More
Activity 3.1
Direction:
Arrange the following pictures below by writing numbers (1-5) to show the
correct steps or procedures in cleaning and maintaining tools.
A. Procedures in Cleaning Farm Tools
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
B. Procedures in Sharpening and Oiling Farm Tools and Equipment
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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What I Have Learned
Activity 3.2
Answer the following questions below. Write your answers on a ½ sheet of paper.
1. Why is it important to maintain farm tools?
2. Is it necessary to follow the procedures to maintain farm tools? Why or Why
not?
3. What are the things you need to consider upon maintaining farm tools?
4. What will happen if you don’t follow the steps or procedures in cleaning and
maintaining farm tools? Give specific scenario that might cause when you
don’t follow the steps or procedures.
5. How can well-conditioned farm tool help farmers? State one scenario.
What I Can Do
Activity 3.3 Clean It Up!
Write a narrative essay about your routine on how you maintain your farm
tools or equipment. Write your reflection in one whole short bond paper. You can
choose one among the following: Pruning shear, Hand tractor, Native plow.
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Lesson Storing Farm Tools and
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Equipment
Objectives:
1. Store tools and equipment in designated areas in line with farm
procedures, and
2. Choose the correct and proper storage of tools and equipment.
What’s In
Storing farm tools and equipment does not just prolong the life of any tools
and equipment but it also maintains safety in the workplace. Properly stored tools
will save you time and money. Well-maintained tools and equipment makes your
work easier and faster.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Why is it important to sharpen your tools?
What is the importance of oiling farm tools and equipment?
How do you store your tools and equipment after use?
Why do we have to store these tools and equipment properly?
How can you save money and time if you store tools properly?
What’s New
Direction:
Read the story below and answer the following questions.
The Farmer and His Tools
One day, Randy was happily working on his farm. Then suddenly, his friend
Ford came and invited him to a party. Because of his excitement, he hurriedly left
with Ford leaving his tools on the field. At night, a heavy rain was pouring and the
field was flooded. In the morning when Randy returned to his farm, he was shocked
of what happened to his farm tools.
1.
2.
3.
4.
What was the story all about?
What do you think happened to Randy’s farm tools?
Why did it happen?
If you are to advice Randy, what will you say?
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What is It
Proper storage of farm tools and equipment should be done to maintain
cleanliness, order and safety in the work place. By doing this, you are promoting
safety and lessen the cost of maintenance and it could prolong the life of farm tools
and equipment.
Importance of Proper Storage of Tools and Equipment
For safety and health as
well as good business.
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Improves appearance of
working areas.
2
Reduces overall tool cost
through maintenance.
3
Ensures that tools are in good
repair at hand.
4
Teaches workers principles of
tool accountability.
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Points to Follow in Storing Tools and Equipment
Have a designated place for
each kind of tools.
6
Frequently used items should
be put in accessible locations.
1
2
Electrical cords should be
gathered and secured to prevent
snagging.
Storage cabinet should be
labeled and place it correctly.
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3
Store tools near the point
of use.
To avoid moisture collection,
cutting board should be stored
vertically.
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4
Before storing, wash and dry
tools properly.
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Store knives properly with
sharp edge down when not
in use.
Metal equipment can be stacked
on one another after drying.
Areas for storing equipment
should be clean, dry and not
over crowded,
10
5
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What’s More
Activity 4.1 Right It Up!
A. Direction: Choose the correct and proper storage of tools and equipment. Write
the correct letter in your answer sheet.
1.
A.
B.
2.
A.
B.
3.
A.
B.
4.
A.
B.
5.
A.
B.
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B. Direction: Explain the following briefly. Write your answer on your activity sheet
1. Which of the following pictures are correct? Why do you say so?
2. Which of the following pictures are wrong? Why?
3. What is the importance of storing tools and equipment properly?
What I Have Learned
Activity 4.2
Directions:
Answer the following questions below and write your answer on your sheet.
1. How will you properly store your tools and equipment? (2pts.)
2. What benefits will you get if you store your tools properly? (2pts.)
3. What are the things you need to consider in storing farm tools? (2pts.)
4. What could possibly happen to your tools if not properly stored? (2pts.)
5. How will you maintain the orderliness of your storage area? (2pts.)
What I Can Do
Activity 4.3 It’s Picture Time!
Make a scrapbook showing the pictures of the farm tools and equipment
available in your home being stored properly. Make sure to write a short introduction
or description about the picture.
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Assessment
Direction:
Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter on your answer sheet.
1. Which of the following is an example of digging tool?
a. Pruning shear
b. Bolo
c. Crowbar
d. Grub Hoe
2. Why do farm tools consider very important in agricultural crop production?
a. They make work easier.
c. They make work faster.
b. They save time and effort.
d. All of the above.
3. Which of the following is the correct storing of tools?
a. store in a wet place
c. store near the playground
b. store in a clean and dry area
d. leave it in the garden
4. Which tool is used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and
herbicides?
a. Pail
b. Dipper
c. Sprinkler
d. Sprayer
5. Which among the tools resembles the appearance of spoon and use for transferring
soil?
a. Shovel
b. Spading fork
c. Spade
d. Grub hoe
6. Which of the following should you store your tools?
a. in a jar
b. in their original cases
c. in a pail
d. in the garden
7. Which of the following is used for cutting bigger size post?
a. Knife
b. Axe
c. Pruning shear
d. Hand cultivator
8. Which of the following is the importance of storing your tools and equipment?
a. Improves appearance of working areas
c. It improves one self
b. Improves the community
d. Improve your tools
9. Why is it important to put oil to your tools and equipment?
a. to prevent from rusting
c. to make it shiny
b. to make it sharp
d. to make it dull
10. Which of the following tools is used for inter row cultivation?
a. Hand fork
b. Pruning shear
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c. Spading fork
d. Rake
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Assessment
1. c
2. d
3. b
4. d
5. a
6.b
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. a
Lesson 3 / Activity 3.1
A.
1. 3
2. 2
3. 1
4. 5
5. 4
B.
1. 2
2. 3
3. 4
4. 5
5. 1
Pre-assessment / What I Know
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. D
7. B
8. A
9. B
10. A
11. B
12. B
13. A
14. A
15. A
Lesson 1 / What’s More
A.
1. Pick-mattock
2. Rake
3. Hand Trowel
4. Bolo
5. Sprinkler
B.
1. Light Hoe
2. Hand cultivator
3. Disc Harrow
Lesson 4 / Activity 4.2
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. B
Answer Key
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