Select the text from the paragraph that best helps you understand that counterintuitive means different from what's expected. There may be more than one correct choice. A typical baby is born with around 300 bones, but by the time a baby reaches adulthood, it will only have 206. Initially, such a notable diminution in the number of bones may seem counterintuitive - shouldn't a skeleton need more bones, not fewer, as it grows?

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Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.