Which sentence is punctuated correctly? a. dennis likes hiking, camping, and fishing; but megan, i've been told, hates being outdoors. b. dennis likes hiking; camping; and fishing, but megan, i've been told, hates being outdoors. c. dennis likes hiking, camping, and fishing, but megan; i've been told; hates being outdoors. d. dennis likes hiking, camping, and fishing but megan, i've been told, hates being outdoors.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

for this case, we must find the number of deaths per day of the year 2015, in automobile accidents, knowing that 32,400 people died.

knowing that the year 2015 had 365 days we have the following division:

where "x" represents the number of deaths per day.

rounding off we have:

approximately, 89 people per day died in 2015

answer:

89 people per day