Read the excerpt from the code book. during the late 1980s, working from his home in boulder, colorado, zimmermann gradually pieced together his scrambling software package. his main goal was to speed up rsa encryption. ordinarily, if alice wants to use rsa to encrypt a message to bob, she looks up his public key and then applies rsa's one-way function to the message. conversely, bob decrypts the ciphertext by using his private key to reverse rsa's one-way function. both processes require considerable mathematical manipulation, so encryption and decryption can, if the message is long, take several minutes on a personal computer. if alice is sending a hundred messages a day, she cannot afford to spend several minutes encrypting each one. which kinds of evidence are included in the excerpt? check all that apply. a statistic an example a quote a hypothetical situation a fact the author’s personal story an example, a hypothetical situation, a fact

Read the paragraph. the storm continued for hours. the thunder was so loud that it was deafening. lightening flashed in the sky, taking the night from completely black to light. the world was coming to an end. how does the use of figurative language the reader understand the paragraph’s meaning? 1 by the reader understand how scary the storm is 2 by the reader recognize how long the storm lasts 3 by the reader compare the storm with an object 4 by the reader remember a similar storm

Marvell's poem is in fact an argument consisting of three logically related points. in at least 150 words, identify each point and trace the speaker's argument from proposition to conclusion. you may find it to identify the transitional word or phrase that marks the beginning of each part of the argument. support your analysis of the argument with details from the poem.

Derek's mother had a busy day ahead of her. she asked derek to by going to the store and buying groceries. "we need bread, milk, cheese and other things," she said. "don't forget to take the list. i know how forgetful you are." derek agreed to do the shopping, but after his mother left, he quickly forgot about his promise. several hours later, he remembered. he ran out the door and headed to the store. he forgot to take the shopping list. when he returned home, derek unloaded the groceries. he had carefully packed the dairy products and vegetables in one bag. the bread and canned goods were packed in the other. he reached into the first bag and took out beans, broccoli, butter and cheese. he put them neatly into the refrigerator. then he put away the bread and soup. when his mother came home, she opened the refrigerator and frowned. 1 select the correct answer. read the passage. then choose the best prediction of what will happen next. a. derek's mother tells him that he forgot to buy milk. b. derek's mother tells him he bought the wrong kind of milk. c. derek's mother tells him that she bought the milk.