Bank loans ups customer 46,000 for a period of nine years simple interest rate of the loan is 8.9% what is the total amount that the customer will need to pay the bank over the 9 years?

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event