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Read the excerpt from an informative report.

(1) Cleaning up the existing garbage in the ocean would help begin to address the issue of climate change. (2) A company called the Ocean Cleanup Project has successfully developed a self-contained system that collects ocean garbage. (3) It uses the natural forces of the ocean to dump floating plastic. (4) The system consists of a thing that holds a ten-foot screen below it that catches waste. (5) It would be awesome to have a bunch of these systems removing garbage.

Which revision improves the accuracy of the text?
In sentence 1, change “issue” to “problem.”
In sentence 2, change “developed” to “created.”
In sentence 3, change “dump” to “capture.”
In sentence 5, change “garbage” to “trash.

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c) in sentence 3, change dump to capture

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