Which of the statements would best serve as a topic sentence for a paragraph?
a) walt whitman changed the way americans thought of poetry.
b) robert frost composed many poems, including mending wall.
c) ralph waldo emerson often walked in the woods surrounding walden pond. d) benjamin franklin ran away from home because his brother was cruel to him.

The statement that would best serve as a topic sentence for a paragraph is A) Walt Whitman changed the way Americans thought of poetry.

Explanation:

A topic sentence has the goal of informing readers on what the paragraph is about. It works as a map of the paragraph, letting readers know where you are going and how you are getting there in terms of the idea being developed. The sentences that come after the topic sentence function as its support, as evidence to defend the topic.

The reason why option A serves best as a topic sentence is the fact that it is more general than the others, allowing for its development throughout a paragraph. How come Walt Whitman changed the way Americans thought of poetry? The rest of the paragraph shall unveil the answer to that.

As for the other sentences, they would serve best as evidence to a topic sentence. B could be explaining why Robert Frost is considered a great poet; C could be detailing where Emerson got inspiration from; and D could be offering insights on Franklin's life history.

for this case, we must find the number of deaths per day of the year 2015, in automobile accidents, knowing that 32,400 people died.

knowing that the year 2015 had 365 days we have the following division:

where "x" represents the number of deaths per day.

rounding off we have:

approximately, 89 people per day died in 2015

answer:

89 people per day

i don't know sorry i cannot read a novel in 30 min.

explanation:

but just in case i think the answer is b.