(1) equal funding should be provided for girls’ and boys’ sports. (2) many girls participate in sports. (3) individual sports have more long-term benefits than team sports. (4) participation in sports benefits girls and boys. (5) federal law prohibits gender discrimination in school athletics. how would eliminating sentence 3 improve the paragraph? it would make the paragraph more coherent. it would unify the paragraph. it would strengthen the topic sentence.