Which shows how to use similar right triangles to find the equation of the line through (0,b) and any point (x, y), on the line?

step-by-step explanation:

the first one is x^2+2x+2

the second one is x^2+4

the last one is x^2-4x+8

  answer:

  write 548 as 500 + 40 + 8. multiply each addend by 5. then add the three products to get 2,740.

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event