Your current CD matures in a few days. You would like to find an investment with a higher rate of return than the CD. Stocks historically have a rate of return between 10% and 12%, but you do not like the risk involved. You have been looking at bond listings in the newspaper. A friend wants you to look at the following corporate bonds as a possible investment. If you buy three of the ABC bonds with a $10 commission for each, how much will it cost?

a. $3142.50

b. $1047.50

c. $3172.50

d. $1077.50

x = 2

step-by-step explanation:

if sr parallel to ba then the sides bc and ac are in proportion, that is

= ← substitute values

= ( cross- multiply )

27x = 6(4x + 1)

27x = 24x + 6 ( subtract 24x from both sides )

3x = 6 ( divide both sides by 3 )

x = 2

answer: (3,11) is your answer.

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