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Which of the following best explains the Three-Fifths Compromise?

-Delegates agreed that three-fifths of the voting members had to be in favor of a law before it was written into the Constitution.
-Delegates agreed that three out of five members of the House or Senate from each state must be men who had served in a branch of the military.
-Delegates agreed that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining the population and representation in Congress.
-Delegates agreed that each state must have at least three out of five delegates present at the Constitutional Convention for that state to get a vote.

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the 3rd one is the answer
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Delegates agreed that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining the population and representation in Congress.
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