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Sam and Annie find a box of marbles in their dad's closet. Sam claims that the marbles can be used to model the structure of a solid.
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Select two statements that best support Sam's claim.
A. Marbles in a box touch each other but do not move past one another.
B. The movements of the marbles in a box are synchronized and orderly.
C. The marbles have a strong attraction to each other and tend to stick together when they collide.
D. The marbles in a box appear to move but they remain in a fixed position.
E. The marbles movements are large, random and chaotic.

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To support Sam's claim that the marbles can model the structure of a solid, the two statements that best fit are:

A. Marbles in a box touch each other but do not move past one another.

D. The marbles in a box appear to move but they remain in a fixed position.

These statements highlight the characteristics of a solid's structure, where particles are closely packed and can vibrate in place but do not move freely past one another.

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