The rate of incarceration in prison increased from 27 per 100,000 women in 1985 to 57 per 100,000 in 1998. men still outnumber women in the inmate population by a factor of about 14 to 1, but the gap is narrowing – from 17 to 1 a decade ago. women constituted only 4 percent of the total prison and jail population in the united state in 1980 but more than 6 percent in 1998. the topic of the passage is a. the increasing number of women in jail b. men versus women in jail c. overcrowded prisons. d. incarceration in america

There are six red marbles 4 blue marbles and 15 green marbles in a jar if you reach in and randomly draw one what is the probability that it will choose a red marble

8. "caged bird" right now, i feel like a bird caged without a key everyone comes to stare at me with so much joy and reverie they don't know how i feel inside through my smile, i cry they don't know what they're doing to me keeping me from flying that's why i say i know why the caged bird sings only joy comes from song she's so rare and beautiful to others why not just set her free? so she can fly, fly, fly spreading her wings and her song let her fly, fly fly for the whole world to see she's like caged bird fly, fly ooh just let her fly just let her fly just let her fly spread the wings spread the beauty what is the allusion found in the poem? question 8 options: a) alicia keys b) i know why the caged bird sings c) spreading her wings and her song d) fly, fly, fly

9. types of literature that are told from a point of view include autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and journals.