How is this excerpt important to the poem as a whole? It introduces the problem the speaker has playing his baseball position.
It shows why the speaker does not like playing baseball.
It shows how the speaker’s feelings about himself begin to change.
It develops the idea that the speaker feels like an outsider with the other boys.

Astudent draws two parabolas on graph paper. both parabolas cross the x-axis at (–4, 0) and (6, 0). the y-intercept of the first parabola is (0, –12). the y-intercept of the second parabola is (0, –24). what is the positive difference between the a values for the two functions that describe the parabolas? write your answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest tenth