Which is the best example of an inciting incident?
a. best friends kym and tessa both decide to audition for the lead in
the school play
b. lorna works hard and gets enough extra credit points to pass her
math class.
c. darnell's biggest dream is to attend mission hills college and
study architecture.
d. cora apologizes for lying to her father and going to a party he had
forbidden her from attending,

A. Best friends Kym and Tessa both decide to audition for the lead in the school play

Explanation:

they both knew the other might get upset and decided to do it anyway. every other example is just people working hard doing things that cause no issues to other people.

the choice that is not a technique that you should use to come up with ideas for the topic of a research project is, writing about academic subjects that are not interesting to you. this does not belong to the techniques to come up with ideas because having no interest in a certain topic will lose your drive to come up with better ideas. it gives no room for improvement and acquiring of new ideas and information. 

explanation:

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)