What is the main purpose of the following sentence?

the average citizen works forty hours per week.

to persuade

to inform

to entertain

to settle

The main purpose of the sentence is to inform

Explanation:

When we inform we give details of data about specific facts, We give information through the use of declarative sentences which is the most common type of sentence, in this specific example, the word average is commonly used in statistics, for which we need to have prior research that is goinf to though facts.

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this