A mutual fund is a group of stocks and bonds. When you purchase a mutual fund, you are pooling your money with that of a bunch of other investors. As a group, you pay an expert to select which stocks and bonds to buy and to manage the fund by reallocating money or buying and selling stock when necessary. Ideally, an expert will do a better job picking stocks and bonds than you will, so your return on investment will be higher. Mutual funds are also a good idea because by spreading your money around, you reduce the impact that a decline in any one investment’s value will have on you overall. Why might you invest in a mutual fund?

A
if you don’t want to diversify your investments

B
if you want an expert to pick your investments

C
if you want to control your investments by yourself

D
if you want to invest your money only in bonds

The unique structure of the opening lines of bart edelman’s poem “they shot wook kim” is meant to convey what main idea? select all that apply.

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?