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* Statement analysis experts in law enforcement claim that when people are lying, they will often choose the number three (three days, three men, three hours, etc), as it sounds the most plausible for whatever scenario they're putting forward. (two is too few, four is too many)

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* Statement analysis experts in law enforcement claim that when people are lying, they will often choose the number three (three days, three men, three hours, etc), as it sounds the most plausible for whatever scenario they're putting forward. forward (two is too few, four is too many)many).
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* Demosthenes, considered the greatest orator of the ancient Greek world, gave this response when asked the three most important components of rhetoric: "Delivery, delivery, delivery."
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** Another Rule of Three is cross-multiplication, a method in arithmetic for figuring out a variable in rational relations. For example, if 5 identical bags of rice contain 35 kg of rice, how much rice will 7 of those bags contain? The answer would be 35/5 × 7 = 49 (kg of rice).

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** Another Rule of Three is cross-multiplication, a method in arithmetic for figuring out a variable in rational relations. For example, if 5 identical rice bags of rice contain 35 kg of rice, how much rice will 7 of those bags contain? The answer would be 35/5 × 7 = 49 (kg of rice).
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** Another Rule of Three is cross-multiplication, a method in arithmetic used to figure out a variable in rational relations. For example, if 5 identical bags of rice contain 35 kg of rice, how much rice will 7 of those bags contain? The answer would be 35/5 × 7 = 49 (kg of rice).

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** Another Rule of Three is cross-multiplication, a method in arithmetic used to figure for figuring out a variable in rational relations. For example, if 5 identical bags of rice contain 35 kg of rice, how much rice will 7 of those bags contain? The answer would be 35/5 × 7 = 49 (kg of rice).
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** Another Rule of Three is cross-multiplying, a method in arithmetic to figure out a variable in rational relations. For example, if a 5 identical bags of rice contain 35 kg of rice, how much rice will 7 of those bags contain? The answer would be 35/5 × 7 = 49 (kg of rice).

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** Another Rule of Three is cross-multiplying, cross-multiplication, a method in arithmetic used to figure out a variable in rational relations. For example, if a 5 identical bags of rice contain 35 kg of rice, how much rice will 7 of those bags contain? The answer would be 35/5 × 7 = 49 (kg of rice).
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** Another Rule of Three is cross-multiplying, a method in arithmetic to figure out a variable in rational relations. For example, if a 5 identical bags of rice contain 35 kg of rice, how much rice will 7 of those bags contain? The answer would be 35/5 × 7 = 49 (kg of rice).
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* Choreography in classical ballet will ''always'' repeat combinations in threes. Neo-classical and contemporary ballets will break this rule, but watch any classical ballet or attend any ballet class, and once you're looking for it, the pattern is obvious.
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CLTh4o4OA Kathryn Morgan]]''': It's classical ballet, you gotta do it three times!

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