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A Levels | Accounting (9706)
Question Count : 30

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What will be debited in the appropriation account of a partnership?

  1. interest on partners’ drawings
  2. interest on the partner’s loan
  3. salaries of partners
  4. partners’ share of goodwill written off

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The totals on a trial balance were: debit $500150 credit $500 000
Which error could have caused the difference?

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Why did Amitav prefer to form a partnership with Lennie rather than set up as a sole trader?

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A business makes and sells a single product.
It has a selling price of $100 and a contribution per unit of $40.
When output is 500 units, the business makes a profit of $2000.
The direct material price is expected to rise by $4 per unit.
How many units will need to be made and sold for the profit to be unchanged?

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X and Y are in partnership sharing profits and losses equally. They have combined capital
account balances of $200 000.
Z was admitted as a partner. Non-current assets were revalued upwards by $30 000. Goodwill
was valued at $20 000 but was not to be retained in the books of account.
Following Z’s admission the total of the partners’ capital accounts was $270 000.
How much capital did Z contribute?

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L, M and N are in partnership, sharing profits and losses equally.
On 31 December 2020 N retired. At that date:

  1. N’s capital account balance was $30 000 and his current account had a debit
    balance of $5400.
  2. Profit for the year was $21 000 before paying L’s salary of $6000.
  3. The goodwill was valued at $18 000 but is not to remain in the books of account.
  4. Other assets are to be revalued upwards by $6000.
    How much will N be entitled to on his retirement?

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The balance on the purchases ledger control account did not agree with the total of balances
from the purchases ledger accounts. The following errors were then discovered.

  1. Contra entries had not been entered in the general journal.
  2. Debit balances on the purchases ledger had not been included in the control
    account.
  3. Discount allowed total had been included in the control account.
  4. Goods returned to a supplier had not been recorded in the purchases returns
    journal.
    Which errors will require entries being made in the purchases ledger?

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A suspense account had a balance of $450 debit.
What caused this balance in the suspense account?

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Why might a business prepare budgets?

  1. to encourage planning and decision-making
  2. to improve coordination between departments
  3.  to monitor and control costs

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The sales ledger control account of a business had a balance of $17 640. This did not agree with
the total of the individual customer accounts in the sales ledger.
The following errors have been discovered.

  1. An invoice in the sales journal for $460 has been entered wrongly in the sales ledger
    as $640.
  2. Credit balances on the sales ledger, $470, have been omitted from the sales ledger
    control account.
  3. Discounts allowed have been incorrectly totalled as $310 instead of $325.
  4. Goods sold to Harry for $690 have been entered in the account of Barry in error.
    What is the correct balance on the sales ledger control account?

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Which statement describes a cost centre rather than a cost unit?

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The year end of a business is 31 December 2021.
On 5 January 2022, inventory was counted and valued at cost, $30 000.
The following was then discovered.

  1. Goods purchased and received after the year end, costing $1500, had been
    included in the valuation.
  2. It included goods returned by a customer after the year end. They had a selling price
    of $900 which included a mark-up of 25% during the year.
  3. Some goods included in the inventory, costing $500, were damaged. They can be
    sold for $300 after repairs costing $100.
    Which value of inventory should be included in the financial statements at 31 December 2021?

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A business increased its profits by changing from marginal costing to absorption costing.
Which statement is correct?

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The provisions of the Partnership Act apply if partners do not draw up a partnership agreement.
Which statement is true as a provision of the Partnership Act?

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A trader has been making a provision for irrecoverable debts for some years. He is now
considering reducing the percentage rate of the provision.
Which ratios would be affected by this reduction?

  1. current ratio
  2. gross margin
  3. profit margin

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Which costs are charged to individual jobs in a job costing system?

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What is not a reason for a business to maintain a purchases journal?

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John and Mary are in partnership. After the first year of operation, the current accounts of both
partners had a debit balance.
What might have caused the debit balances?

  1. drawings
  2. loss for the year
  3. salaries they are entitled to

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What will apply to a partnership where there is no partnership agreement?

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A Levels | Biology (9700)
Question Count : 40

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When animal cells are cultured, salt solution is added to keep the cells alive.
What is the purpose of the salt solution?

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Which statement about the Michaelis–Menten constant (Km) is correct for an enzyme with a low
affinity for its substrate?

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In a healthy human, the mean value for the number of haemoglobin molecules in one red blood
cell is 260 million.
How many α-globin chains does one red blood cell contain in a healthy human?

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Which molecules contain at least three double bonds?

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Which statement helps to explain why the two sugar-phosphate chains in a DNA molecule are a
constant distance apart?

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Which statement about the structure of the heart is correct?

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Which events occur during ventricular systole?

  1. Atrioventricular valves close.
  2. Muscle in ventricle walls relaxes.
  3. Semilunar valves open.

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One molecule of X is formed by a single condensation reaction releasing one molecule of water.
What is molecule X?

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Which statement is correct?

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Which events are part of the mitotic cell cycle?

  1. interphase
  2. telophase
  3. cytokinesis

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Which effect does increasing carbon dioxide concentration have on haemoglobin?

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The statements describe some of the properties of water.

  1. requires a lot of heat energy to evaporate
  2. retains a lot of heat energy
  3. is able to form hydrogen bonds with other water molecules
  4. is able to form hydrogen bonds with other polar and non-polar molecules
    Which properties are also important for transport in xylem?

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What enables triglycerides to perform their functions in living organisms?

  1. Triglycerides have hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions.
  2. Triglycerides have a high ratio of carbon–hydrogen bonds to carbon atoms.
  3. Hydrolysis of triglycerides releases metabolic water.

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Batrachotoxin is a poison found in frogs in the Colombian jungle. The poison is used to produce
poison darts.
The poison works by increasing the permeability of the cell surface membrane of nerve and
muscle cells to sodium ions, which move out of the cells.
Four students made statements about how the poison affects the cells.

  1. Water leaves the cells by osmosis, causing the cells to shrink.
  2. Water enters the cells by osmosis, causing the cells to burst.
  3. When the sodium ions move out of the cells the intracellular fluid has a more
    positive water potential than the extracellular fluid.
  4. When the sodium ions move out of the cells the extracellular fluid has a more
    positive water potential than the intracellular fluid.
    Which statements are correct for the cells affected by batrachotoxin?

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An indicator mixed with agar forms a pink colour. The pink-coloured agar becomes colourless
when put in acid.
Blocks of pink-coloured agar are cut to different sizes and put in acid. All other variables are kept
constant.
Which block becomes colourless most quickly?

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Which processes occur during the loading of sucrose into phloem sieve tubes?

  1. Protons are pumped out of the cytoplasm of the companion cell into its cell wall.
  2. There is a higher concentration of protons in the symplastic pathway outside the
    companion cell.
  3. Protons are unable to move back into the companion cell.
  4. A co-transporter molecule acts as a carrier for protons and sucrose.

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What are the products when a DNA molecule replicates?

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The very large (1000 nm) Pandora viruses found in Chile and Australia are considered to be
viruses because they cannot replicate their own genome and cannot make proteins.
They also share essential structural features with other viruses.
What are the essential structural features of viruses?

  1. non-cellular
  2. protein coat
  3. both DNA and RNA
  4. either DNA or RNA

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Which statements about the formation of haemoglobinic acid are correct?

  1. It can only occur with the dissociation of oxygen from haemoglobin.
  2. It removes excess hydrogen ions, preventing blood from becoming too acidic.
  3. It is linked to the action of carbonic anhydrase.

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A Levels | Chemistry (9701)
Question Count : 40

Duration :1 hours

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NH4NO3 decomposes into N2O and H2O on heating.

Which statements are correct?

  1. The ammonium ion is behaving as a reducing agent.
  2. The nitrate(V) ion is behaving as an oxidising agent.
  3. It is a redox reaction.
  4. It is a disproportionation reaction.

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Structural and stereoisomerism should be considered when answering this question.
P has molecular formula C5H10O.
P produces an orange precipitate with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (2,4-DNPH reagent).
How many isomeric structures does P have?

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Which statement about ammonia or the ammonium ion is correct?

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In this question, alkenes and cyclic alkanes should be considered.
How many structural isomers of C4H8 are there?

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Which reagent:

  • can confirm the presence of a carbonyl group in an organic compound
  • does not distinguish between aldehydes and ketones?

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What is the least number of carbon atoms in a non-cyclic alkane molecule that has a chiral
centre?

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Compound R can be formed from 1-bromopropane using a nucleophilic substitution reaction
followed by an oxidation reaction.
What is the identity of R?

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Which reagent will react with pentan-3-ol to give a mixture of stereoisomers?

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HCN has been detected in interstellar gas. The molecules below have also been detected in
interstellar gas.
Which molecule contains the same total number of valence shell (outer shell) electrons as HCN?

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Structural isomerism only should be considered when answering this question.

Several compounds with molecular formula C4H8O2 have one carbonyl group and one OH group.

How many of these compounds produce yellow crystals with alkaline I2(aq) at room temperature?

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Tartaric acid, HOOCCH(OH)CH(OH)COOH, is found in many plants.
A sample of tartaric acid reacts with an excess of LiAlH4 to form the organic product J.
What happens when NaOH(aq) is added to separate samples of tartaric acid and J?

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The carbonate of an s-block element is reacted with an excess of hydrochloric acid.
0.833 g of the carbonate releases 200 cm3 of gas, measured under room conditions.
What is the identity of the metal carbonate?

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Sodium, magnesium, aluminium, silicon and phosphorus are all elements in Period 3 of the Periodic
Table.
Three statements about the oxides and chlorides of these elements are given.

  1. The ionically bonded oxides all react with dilute hydrochloric acid
  2. All metal chlorides produce neutral solutions when added to water
  3. The two most electronegative elements both form covalently bonded chlorides.

Which statements are correct?

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Compound Q is a white crystalline solid which dissolves easily in water.
When concentrated sulfuric acid is added to a dry sample of Q, steamy white fumes are formed.
When these white fumes are passed into aqueous silver nitrate solution, a white precipitate
forms.
This precipitate is soluble in dilute ammonia solution.
What is compound Q?

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Which statement about the oxides of nitrogen is correct?

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An excess of chlorine was bubbled into 100 cm3 of hot 6.0 mol dm–3 sodium hydroxide.
How many moles of sodium chloride would be produced in the reaction?

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Which statement relating to the elements in Group 17 and their compounds is correct?

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A carbonyl compound, X, reacts with HCN in the presence of NaCN to make a compound with
Mr 85. Compound X does not react with Fehling’s reagent.

What is compound X?

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The first ionisation energy of potassium, K, is 418 kJ mol–1. The first ionisation energy of
strontium, Sr, is 548 kJmol–1.
Which statement helps to explain why Sr has a greater first ionisation energy than K?

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Which compound will react with LiAlH4 to form two optical isomers?

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Which reaction is a redox reaction?

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How many structurally isomeric secondary alcohols are there with the molecular formula C5H12O?

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Which pair of alcohols are isomers of each other?

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A Levels | Economics (9708)
Question Count : 30

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What is used to convert nominal GDP to real GDP?

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Which statement defines the price elasticity of supply?

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What best illustrates the process of privatisation?

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A country has a floating exchange rate.
An increase in which variable in the country will cause its currency to appreciate?

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Assuming nothing else changes, which change in an economy’s labour market will cause the
production possibility curve to shift to the left?

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What would be increased by an expansionary fiscal policy?

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The cross-elasticity of demand of good S with respect to the price of good P is +1.5.
The cross-elasticity of demand of good S with respect to the price of good R is –1.5.
The cross-elasticity of demand of good P with respect to the price of good R is –1.5.

What can be concluded about goods P, R and S?

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What is likely to explain an increase in the deficit on a country’s current account of the balance of
payments?

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Why does the basic economic problem of scarcity apply to both the rich and the poor?

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Which approach would a government be most likely to use to eliminate deflation?

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An increase in which variable is a contractionary monetary policy?

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A government imposes a maximum price on medical face masks, below the market equilibrium.
What is the most likely effect of this?

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Which change in economic circumstances is most likely to lead to a reduction in the rate of
domestic inflation in an economy?

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Following a 10% depreciation in the $ value of the £ sterling, a UK exporter leaves the $ price of
the goods it sells in the US market unchanged.
Other things being equal, what will be the effect on the revenue measured in sterling obtained by
the manufacturer from its sales in the US?

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What does the Marshall–Lerner condition state must be present for a depreciation of a currency
to cause an improvement in the current account balance?

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A country with low unemployment and a managed floating exchange rate has a persistent current
account deficit on its balance of payments.
Which policy to reduce this deficit is most likely to keep unemployment low, but cause inflation?

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What is not a producer subsidy?

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A country with a floating exchange rate experiences a large surplus on the current account of its
balance of payments.
What is likely to decrease as a consequence?

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A government is faced with rising inflation. It wishes to reduce inflationary pressure while avoiding
a fall in output.
Which action is most likely to meet its needs?

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What is the most likely cause of an outward shift of a country’s aggregate demand curve?

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A Levels | Physics (9702)
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A laser produces a beam of light of wavelength 650 nm. The beam is incident normally on two
slits that are a distance of 0.12 mm apart.
A screen is placed parallel to the slits. The bright interference fringes on the screen have a
separation of 7.5 cm.
What is the distance between the screen and the two slits?

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A metal wire is connected between the terminals of a cell so that there is a current in the wire.
Which statement is correct?

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Which quantity is a vector?

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A telescope detects and analyses some electromagnetic radiation of wavelength 2 cm.
Which type of telescope is it?

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A wire has a length of 3.0 m and is made of metal of resistivity 4.9 × 10–7 Ωm.
A potential difference (p.d.) of 12V is applied across the wire so that it has a current of 1.4A.
What is the cross-sectional area of the wire?

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A ball has a mass of 0.50 kg and a volume of 1.3 × 10–3 m3. The ball is floating in equilibrium on
still water. The two forces that act on the ball are its weight and the upthrust due to the water.
The density of the water is 1.0 × 103 kg m–3.
What is the percentage of the volume of the ball above the surface of the water?

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Which statement about progressive transverse and longitudinal waves is correct?

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For a current-carrying wire, the current can be calculated using the equation shown.
I = Anvq
What is the meaning of n?

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A metal wire is stretched. The wire obeys Hooke’s law.
Which quantity has a value that does not change?

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Which product of two quantities is equal to power?

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An experiment is set up to demonstrate the diffraction of water waves in a ripple tank.
The waves pass through a gap of width w and some diffraction of the waves is observed.
The wavelength of the waves is now doubled.
What is the new gap width needed to cause the same amount of diffraction as before?

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A progressive wave of frequency 1.5 kHz travels in a medium at a speed of 340 m s–1.
What is the minimum distance between two points on the wave that have a phase difference of
70°?

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What is the definition of the potential difference across an electrical component?

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A steel wire has a length of 300 cm and a cross-sectional area of 0.50 mm2. The Young modulus
of steel is 2.0 × 1011Pa.
One end of the wire is attached to a fixed point. A load of 10 N is hung from the other end. The
wire obeys Hooke’s law.
What is the extension of the wire?

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A rock of mass 40 kg is released from rest from a height of 20 m above the surface of a planet.
The rock has a kinetic energy of 32 kJ when it hits the surface of the planet. The planet does not
have an atmosphere.
What is the weight of the rock on the surface of the planet?

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