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Approximate Rates of Speech andInformation Conveyed for Five LanguagesLanguageRate of speech(syllablesper second)Rate of informationconveyed (bitsper second)Serbian 7.2 39.1Spanish 7.7 42.0Vietnamese 5.3 42.5Thai 4.7 33.8Hungarian 5.9 34.6A group of researchers working in Europe, Asia, andOceania conducted a study to determine how quicklydifferent Eurasian languages are typically spoken(in syllables per second) and how much informationthey can effectively convey (in bits per second). Theyfound that, although languages vary widely in thespeed at which they are spoken, the amount ofinformation languages can effectively convey tendsto vary much less. Thus, they claim that twolanguages with very different spoken rates cannonetheless convey the same amount of informationin a given amount of time.Which choice best describes data from the table thatsupport the researchers’ claim?A) Among the five languages in the table, Thai andHungarian have the lowest rates of speech andthe lowest rates of information conveyed.B) Vietnamese conveys information atapproximately the same rate as Spanish despitebeing spoken at a slower rate.C) Among the five languages in the table, thelanguage that is spoken the fastest is also thelanguage that conveys information the fastest.D) Serbian and Spanish are spoken at approximatelythe same rate, but Serbian conveys informationfaster than Spanish does.

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Approximate Rates of Speech andInformation Conveyed for Five LanguagesLanguageRate of speech(syllablesper second)Rate of informationconveyed (bitsper second)Serbian 7.2 39.1Spanish 7.7 42.0Vietnamese 5.3 42.5Thai 4.7 33.8Hungarian 5.9 34.6A group of researchers working in Europe, Asia, andOceania conducted a study to determine how quicklydifferent Eurasian languages are typically spoken(in syllables per second) and how much informationthey can effectively convey (in bits per second). Theyfound that, although languages vary widely in thespeed at which they are spoken, the amount ofinformation languages can effectively convey tendsto vary much less. Thus, they claim that twolanguages with very different spoken rates cannonetheless convey the same amount of informationin a given amount of time.Which choice best describes data from the table thatsupport the researchers’ claim?A) Among the five languages in the table, Thai andHungarian have the lowest rates of speech andthe lowest rates of information conveyed.B) Vietnamese conveys information atapproximately the same rate as Spanish despitebeing spoken at a slower rate.C) Among the five languages in the table, thelanguage that is spoken the fastest is also thelanguage that conveys information the fastest.D) Serbian and Spanish are spoken at approximatelythe same rate, but Serbian conveys informationfaster than Spanish does.

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The best choice that supports the researchers' claim from the data in the table is B) Vietnamese conveys information at approximately the same rate as Spanish despite being spoken at a slower rate. This is because, even though Vietnamese is spoken at a slower rate (5.3 syllables per second) compared to Spanish (7.7 syllables per second), they both convey information at a similar rate (Vietnamese at 42.5 bits per second and Spanish at 42.0 bits per second). This supports the researchers' claim that two languages with very different spoken rates can nonetheless convey the same amount of information in a given amount of time.

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