The correct answer is <em>B). Stressful fall and winter holidays generally cause payment rates to drop.
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According to the authors, the personal mood seems to <em>affect honesty in the high-cheating holidays because this period is fraught with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones.</em> Then, many people prefer to cheat in order to have an advantage.
Freakonomics is a book written by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. The full title is “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” was published on April 12, 2005.
The answer is "a question" because it is a statement
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Explanation:
The main idea is also the topic of the paragraph. The main idea is the main point of the paragraph. It is the most important piece of information about the paragraph.
Answer:
1: The first sentence lists specific conditions followed by what might eventually happen.
3: The second sentence starts with the expression “for this reason.”
4: The second sentence lists potential consequences of the situation described.
Explanation:
"The Prince" (1532) is a political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) who was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, and political philosopher.
The Chapter 5 of the book is "Conquered Free States, with their own laws and orders"
Option 1 might or might not be a cause-and-effect structure. It might not necessarily be cause-and-effect structure. Two events happening one after and other does not show that the first one is the cause and the second one effect. But, it is also true that in cause-and-effect structure one event (result) happens followed by another event.
Option 3 is correct because it clearly shows a cause-and-effect structure <u>(for this reason).</u>
Option 4 is correct because the events stated in the second sentence are the consequences (effect/result) of the situations described in the first sentence.
Option 2 is not cause-and-effect structure. "On the one hand" and "on the other hand" is used to describe two parallel and contrasting ideas. Hence, it is a contrasting structure.
Option 5 is not a cause-and-effect structure because the phrase <em>"citizen of the conquered city"</em> in no way shows the cause and effect of any situation