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Question
When Skander and Pen Pal exchanged bodies and personalities, each received certain benefits. Write words or phrases in the scales under their names, to indicate the advantages to each. Decide who profited most from the exchange. (Copy and complete.)
Solution
| Skander (original) | Pen Pal { (original) |
| ® escaped from prison | ® has a longer life expectancy |
| ® now enjoying new body and new environment (on the Earth) |
® has a healthy body |
| ® has a partial and incomplete capability to exchange personalities with someone because he has all the equipments and laboratory facilities but not the brain of the original Skander. |
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