Answer: Coraline notices that one of the loose floorboards in the house leads to a trapdoor. The trapdoor is a metaphor for the secrecy and deception that is omnipresent in the other world. Things are never as they appear, and Coraline must learn to distinguish appearance from reality.Nov
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The correct answer is A: that the data presented so far is inconclusive
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In this excerpt, the author talks about vehicle backover injuries and deaths. However, as we read the excerpt, we make an impression that the data presented here is inconclusive, as the author doesn't provide the exact statistical information and base the facts mainly on his/her suppositions.
For example, <em>the driver may even be the child's mother or father</em> or <em>experts often don't agree on the exact number of children injured or killed in backover incidents each year </em>doesn't provide any relevant information from which we could make a certain conclusion, as the paragraph seems to be incomplete and inconclusive.