Which detail from the excerpt best supports the inference that food was more consistently available in larger towns? O Pig farmers keep their fitches of bacon back in storage until they can get a better price for them later in the winter. O Such tactics are made even more profitable by the unhappy fact that harvests can fail, causing local and sometimes national--food shortages. O Large towns are less vulnerable, being part of an international market that sees preserved foods traded long-distance, but much of the countryside is dependent on fresh food. O After a poor harvest, prices for all commodities--not just grain-rise dramatically and the poor are unable to make ends meet.​

In the real world, feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. he came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. he considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” if a company habitually paid below 80 percent, feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: the cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. unfortunately, the number of bagels that disappear without being paid for has also gone up. don’t let that continue. i don’t imagine that you would teach your children to cheat, so why do it yourselves? the excerpt serves as which type of support for the authors’ argument? a claim an example a conclusion a counterclaim