Please Help Please read the short passage and answer the 2 questions. Researchers analyzed data from prior studies on student absenteeism to generate preliminary estimates for how school closures could impact student learning in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. They also examined data on learning patterns among a national sample of 5 million U. S. students in grades 3 to 8 across two school years and the summer break in between. “In this study, we produced a set of possible scenarios for learning loss rates during the extended period when schools are physically closed, and students are not receiving normal face-to-face instruction,” Kuhfeld and her colleagues write. “These projections can help prepare educators and parents for the degree of variability in student achievement to expect when school resumes over the upcoming school year.” The researchers explain that their estimates don’t take into account many factors that are likely to influence learning during the current shutdown — changes in parents’ employment status and access to food. “Families with financial resources, stable employment, and flexible work-from-home and childcare arrangements will likely weather this storm more easily than families who are renting their housing, working in low-paying fields that are hardest hit by the economic impacts, and experiencing higher rates of food insecurity, family instability, and other shocks from this disruption,” they write.

What is most likely the author’s purpose? *
A to persuade
B to inform
C to entertain
D to explain

What conclusion can be drawn about the author’s relevance of evidence regarding student impact?