The ____, invented in 1672 by a French philosopher, was a mechanical calculator that could do addition and subtraction.
A) Pascaline
B) Leibnitz's wheel
C) abacus
D) TI-85

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The Pascaline was invented by French philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1672 and was a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction. Leibnitz's wheel was invented by German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in 1673 and was a calculator capable of multiplication and division. The abacus is an ancient calculating tool that predates mechanical calculators, and the TI-85 is a modern graphing calculator that was not invented until the 1990s.

The ____, Invented in 1672 by a French Philosopher, Was