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+**Duplicated Code**
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+* Force: Refactoring may be considered if a common structure is recongized among related methods.
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+* Solution: It may be possible to generalize smaller methods to allow them to work as one. However, you must be careful to not over generalize a method and allow it to have more power than nessecary. A good metric to measure by is that a method should have between 6-8 meaningful lines of code.