<span>D. He is appealing to the audience's sense of logic.
Appealing to the audience's sense of logic is called logos, and it is an important part of the Rhetorical Triangle. Audiences need logic, facts, statistics in order to trust the information that the speaker is presenting. The use of statistics here is appealing to that logic. </span>
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D.<span>The storm—it was the worst in years—caused several power outages.</span>
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