Read the paragraph below and answer the question that follows. 1My name is Jonathan Cross. 2I am a member of the basketball team
at Carter High School. 3Because of budget cuts, our school is unable to pay costs for new uniforms for our team. 4As a result, the team is seeking other sponsors to fund our new uniforms. 5I am writing to request that you consider sponsoring our team. 6As a sponsor, your company name would be featured on our uniforms. Which of the following assertions is made about the topic in the paragraph? Donating uniforms will help the team. Donating uniforms will help the sponsor. Benefits are greater than costs for donating uniforms. Costs are greater than benefits for donating uniforms. none of the above The paragraph makes no assertions because it has no thesis.
Answer: benefit are greater than cost for donating uniforms.
Explanation:The paragraph makes the assertion that there is benefit for the school basketball team. It states that it would be a win win situation, as the company provides uniform for the basketball team , the team will feature the organization name on their uniforms which is a mode of advertisement for the company. The benefits of sponsoring the basketball team uniforms outweigh the cost of donating the uniforms because the “advertisement” will leads to much more sales for the company.
