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Directions: The four sentences below, labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Enter the correct sequence of numbers as your answer.
1. Yet honeybees, when relocating to a new hive site, resolve exactly this kind of disagreement through a structured, decentralized process.
2. Scout bees who favour different sites perform competing waggle dances, and over time bees are recruited to whichever dance is most vigorously and persistently performed.
3. Group decision-making is often assumed to require either a central authority or a slow, deliberative discussion among all members.
4. Eventually one site's dance overwhelms the others in the swarm's collective attention, and the whole colony departs together for that single location, with no individual bee ever having surveyed all the options itself.
1. Yet honeybees, when relocating to a new hive site, resolve exactly this kind of disagreement through a structured, decentralized process.
2. Scout bees who favour different sites perform competing waggle dances, and over time bees are recruited to whichever dance is most vigorously and persistently performed.
3. Group decision-making is often assumed to require either a central authority or a slow, deliberative discussion among all members.
4. Eventually one site's dance overwhelms the others in the swarm's collective attention, and the whole colony departs together for that single location, with no individual bee ever having surveyed all the options itself.
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Answer: 3124
Sentence 3 opens with the general assumption about group decision-making. Sentence 1 introduces honeybees as a counter-example ("yet"). Sentence 2 explains the mechanism (competing waggle dances). Sentence 4 gives the outcome (one dance wins, colony departs together). The coherent order is 3-1-2-4, i.e., digits 3124.
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