A. Somewhat. The sentence still makes sense without it, and it doesn't matter how skeptical she is since she's still doing research either way, so it can be cut out.
Perfect tense allows you to express the order of 2 or more events occurring during the same time period
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D because skeptical is like when ur impressed but ur not at the same time
<span> a Stereotype is a fixed mindset or idea of a certain type of person or thing.</span>