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Read the paragraph below. Then answer the question.
(1) Society, not biology, gives meaning to the idea of "race." (2) A scientist looking at a drop of blood under a microscope can't tell if
the person it came from is Irish, Ethiopian, Hawaiian, or Apache. (3) In the United States, people of African ancestry who run the
color spectrum from the palest tan to the deepest ebony are all considered "black." (4) But many Central and South American
societies would divide those "black" people into a number of smaller categories, based on differences in their skin tone. (5)
Brazilians, for example, have about 40 color groupings to describe people. (6) Brazilians of all colors speak Portuguese, while
Spanish is spoken in most of the rest of Central and South America.
Which sentence is not relevant to the author's conclusion that society, not biology, gives meaning to the idea of "race"?
A a. Sentence 3
b. Sentence 4
c. Sentence 5
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d. Sentence 6
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Answer: Sentence 6.

Explanation: All the other sentences are about how different societies have different ideas of "race" and how in some places deeper and lighter colors of skins are divided based on skin tones. However, no other sentence speaks about types of languages. Yea language had nothing to do with any other part of this paragraph except sentence 6.