Tina makes 480 sandwiches.
She only makes tuna sandwiches, beef sandwiches, ham sandwiches and
cheese sandwiches.
of the sandwiches are tuna. 35% of the sandwiches are beef.
The ratio of the number of ham sandwiches to the
number of cheese sandwiches is 5:6
Work out the number of ham sandwiches that Tina makes.

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event