Answer:
They were expensive because people with special skills were needed to produce them.
Explanation:
The text doesn't say anything about the last two options, and not only wealthy people bought them. They weren't rare either.
Since you already changed the fractions into decimals, it will be easier to change it into fraction with the denominator of 100 or 1000.
All you have to do is move the decimals to the right in order to find the denominator.
14a) 50/100 OR 51/100 the bigger number would be 51/100 or 0.51
14b) 80/100 or 85/100 the bigger is 85/100 or 0.85
14c) 750/1000 or 734/1000 the bigger number is 750/1000 or 3/4.
Hope this helps.
Jerry researched the report, and I took notes.
