Which excerpt from "Math Curse" best helps the reader predict the narrator's main conflict? "I look in my closet, and the problems get worse: I have 1 white shirt, 3 blue shirts, 3 striped shirts, and that ugly plaid shirt my Uncle Zeno sent me."
"ON MONDAY in Math class, Mrs. Fibonacci says, "YOU KNOW, you can think of almost everything as a math problem."
"Each pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. Each pie is cut into 6 equal slices. And you know what that means: fractions."
"THE WHOLE morning is one problem after another. There are 24 kids in my class."

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader