Which quotation from the text supports the answer to Part A? “Bitcoin isn’t a country—it’s a software system—and bitcoins are created when computers solve complex mathematical formulas called algorithms.” (paragraph 2)
“Bitcoin isn’t a country—it’s a software system—and bitcoins are created when computers solve complex mathematical formulas called algorithms.” (paragraph 2)

“Now there are so many miners trying to get bitcoins, it takes special computer equipment to compete with them.” (paragraph 5)
“Now there are so many miners trying to get bitcoins, it takes special computer equipment to compete with them.” (paragraph 5)

“But there’s another way: your parents could log on to a computer and transfer bitcoins directly to you in Paris in 10 minutes, for free.” (paragraph 7)
“But there’s another way: your parents could log on to a computer and transfer bitcoins directly to you in Paris in 10 minutes, for free.” (paragraph 7)

“No one sets how much a bitcoin is worth; it’s worth as much as someone will pay for it, from less than a dollar to more than a thousand dollars for a single bitcoin.” (paragraph 8)

the answer is a.

explanation:

the clause "looking toward the south" modifies "a funnel cloud." it's not really the cloud that's "looking," but grammatically, that clause is modifying the cloud.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

no plagarism

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a. "to practice" is the best phrase to complete the sentence.

explanation:

during the summer, she likes to practice her soccer skills so that she is ready to play in the fall.

(note that : all the other options "the practicing of", "practice for" and "to do a practice on" are inappropriate as they make the sentence grammatically incorrect.)