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B. They reflect the shared experience of a group of people.
Answer:
The authors prove Feldman's success by describing the size of his business.
Explanation:
At the end of the excerpt, the authors talk of how Feldman threw off the "shackles of cubicle life". <u>He went from being an employee in a cubicle to being a successful self-employed man. To prove his success, the authors provide us with numbers that show the size of his business: </u>
<u><em>Within a few years, Feldman was delivering 8,400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as much as he had ever made as a research analyst.</em></u>
<u>Being able to deliver that amount of bagels to that number of companies can only mean his business is big. He'd need to have several people working under him as well as a quite decently sized infrastructure to do it.</u>
Answer:
Use the past tense to report what happened in the past: what you did, what someone reported, what happened in an experiment, and so on. Use the present tense to express general truths, such as conclusions (drawn by you or by others) and atemporal facts (including information about what the paper does or covers).
