Excerpt from Fingerprints
Carole Jenkins

What is the worst enemy of a criminal being prosecuted? Is it the answers given to police during interrogation? Is it the witnesses during the trial? Or is it the expertise of the prosecuting attorney? It may surprise you that the identification of the criminal's own fingerprints may be the most important tool in the conviction of a criminal.

The fingerprints of one person may be distinguished from those of anyone else in the world. When a set of fingerprints is sent to a crime laboratory for identification. The general pattern of the prints is verified first. The unique combination of the loops, arches, and whorls determine the shape of the ridges on a person's fingertips. The particular shape is then checked to see if there is a match with any set of prints on file with the authorities. The identity of the criminal may then be established with absolute certainty.
Who is the intended audience for this passage?
A) criminals
B) the general public
C) fingerprint experts
D) crime investigators

Can someone me answer this english question

How many syllables does a tanka have? a. 31 b. 17 c. 14 d. 10

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.