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threads per page: 10 | 20 | 50   1. Our group of college
educated professionals took a challenge based on some of our old
high school textbooks and todays educational benchmark exams.
All the members of this group have 15 years of experience in
their professions, worked in management and 90% of the group ran
their own businesses at one time or another.      Retaking exams
from our old high school textbooks for English, math and science
the highest score was only 65%. We then took exams from a 4th
grade class for the same areas. None of us scored over 50%.
I personally failed both math tests. I couldn't remember how
many pints equale