Read the following text: Plastic grocery bags are a relatively recent Invention. Polyethylene, the substance used to create plastic, was created in 1933. In 1953, a denser plastic was invented, which was used to make
plastic grocery bags. First, a company called Celloplast requested a patent for plastic tubing in 1960. Then, Gustaf Thulin Sten had the idea of removing some of the plastic to create handies. The
patent for plastic bags in the shape of a t-shirt was obtained in 1965. Finally, the Mobil Chemical company began to produce plastic bags in 1977. These plastic bags were introduced to America in
1979. However, the plastic grocery bags were not widely used or accepted. In 1985, a speaker at a regional conference explained that plastic bags were more cost-efficent than paper. By the end
of 1985, most supermarkets carried plastic grocery bags.
a: cause and effect
b: chronological order
c: compare and contrast
d: problem and solution

What is the central idea of this excerpt?

Which statement best explains coelho's choice in the alchemist to have the boy work for the crystal merchant? it shows the reader what happens when one follows his or her personal legendit explains how the boy earns enough money to marry the merchant's daughter. it provides the reader with engaging details about the city of tangier. it demonstrates that the path to one's personal legend is not a straight and obvious one.

Time remaining 59: 46 which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt? read the excerpt from the odyssey. out to sea again! ' my men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting.-while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of cicones this was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot. they came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring. so doom appeared to us, dark word of zeus for us, our evil days. the forces sent by cicones to fight odysseus and his men arrived during the early morning hours. odysseus and his men feasted on the animals they slaughtered while on the island of cicones the forces sent by cicones to stop the plundering of odysseus and his men were skilled and powerful odysseus views the forces sent by cicones as punishment from the greek god zeus. mark this and retum save and exit save and exit next sub subunit