Ur subject " calculators " is plural
ur verb " derives " is a singular verb....it needs to be plural because ur subject is plural.
The correct way to write this would be :
Modern calculators, which can compute sums almost instantaneously, derive from abacuses, hand operated devices with beads that slide along rods.
A) Appears to contradict itself.
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I thinks its b though
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