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  One day Lucky's mother after taking meal felt pain and irritation in her stomach. His father was out of station. He was an intelligent boy. He remembered his teacher's statement and gave her mother some baking soda solution, which gave her a relief from pain and irritation of stomach. Read the above passage and answer the following questions (a)Which information given by the teacher helped him to select the baking soda as remedy? (b) Why he selects baking soda as a cure? (c) Suggest any other substance that can be used as a remedy instead of baking soda. (d) State any two values that you have learned from this passage.

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                  (a) The information is pain and irritation in stomach is due to excessive secretion of a strong acid, called the hydrochloric acid.      (1) (b) Lucky selects baking soda because it is a mild base and neutralises the excessive acid  to give relief from pain.                (c) Milk of magnesia can be used as a remedy instead of baking soda.                                     (1) (d) The following values, I have learned from the passage (i) Careful learning in the class.                      (1) (ii) Use of right knowledge at right place.(1)