Each Question Below Is a Plan for a Narrative Paragraph

question 42

Multiple Choice

Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. The events in the plans are not in the correct chronological order. For each plan, select the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. Google is the only multibillion-dollar company in the world whose name is a spelling mistake.
____ In 1997, two computer science students were working on creating a new search engine and needed to find a name for their invention.
____ They were stuck with their misspelling, but it didn't prevent their new company from becoming one of the fastest-growing in the history of the world.
____ Thinking that the word for that huge number was spelled google , the two cofounders looked up the name on the Internet, found it wasn't taken, and registered their new brand as google.com.
____ A fellow student suggested that the name used for the huge number 10¹⁰⁰ would be a good one for a program capable of searching millions of web pages.
____ After registering their brand, they found out that they had misspelled the word, and the word they really needed ⎯ googol ⎯ already belonged to someone else.

• A) 1, 5, 3, 2, 4
• B) 2, 4, 3, 5, 1
• C) 5, 1, 3, 4, 2

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