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Section C
Compound Dictation
Splitting dinner checks can cause a splitting headache, even when the diners are mathematics majors. Three computer science (36) ______ students at the US's Carnegie Mellon University were (37) ______ up with worrying about shared bills so they decided to act. Shashank, Amit and Ashwin created a free website, Buxfer.com, in September, to help people remember who (38) ______ what and to whom.
Instead of trying to (39) ______ out how every dinner bill should be split, the site allows users to form groups of friends or housemates to (40) ______ shared expenses over longer periods of time. For example, if one housemate pays for dinner for everyone, he earns (41) ______ in his Buxfer group and pays less on next month's rent. Buxfer quickly became (42) ______ among college students and young (43) ______ who often pool expenses and borrow small amounts from each other.
News of the site has spread largely by word of mouth and on blogs. (44) _____________________________________________________ . Buxfer automatically e-mails users about new transactions. When a user logs on to Buxfer, (45) _______________________________________________________ . Users can also leave notes for each other on the site.
Buxfer has been an eye-opener for Veda as it has shown him how much money was flowing between him and his friends. The site is helping him track US$300 that others owe him, (46) _____________________________________________________________ .
