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All right sy Writing shmoop er's We're in three Five

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here analyzing this fine piece of writing It's critical to

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understand how to properly dispose of and recycle electronic kiosks

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available Mp three players Boy was written a long time

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ago And place your ban if you agree to sell

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the product right let's get down the question here in

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context Which of the following details would best support the

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author's purpose if inserted after sentenced nine in the passage

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and reproduced below this thing they're going to insert that

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after sentence nine was quickly Go up there and look

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at sentence nine food come after this All right From

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your electric toothbrush to your tv remote your children's animated

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toys each day your family uses a lot of batteries

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Okay then it would be inserted Right So let's think

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about this Well we've got some choices here In fact

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every year americans row out almost I mean batteries Ok

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Yeah That's reasonable between cellphone tablet computer of the wound

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and the average twenty for electron Tobi that relevant All

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right most people don't realize and you waste offenders and

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something dry cell batteries using consumer electronics All right well

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we really have had to skin this passage carefully to

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come up with the right answer Right So if you

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see these answer choices and you're going home what is

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this Go back and re skim and skim again Kind

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of Like the milk well details make excellent support for

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ideas related to an author's purpose Choosing the correct detail

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The fifth purpose can be tricky The author's purpose here

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is to inform the reader about recycling and convince him

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or her that it's easy and responsible to dio We

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want a detail that builds upon or supports the purpose

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right Well the only detail that informs the reader about

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recyclable items and fits with previous sense is the one

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that mentions one hundred eighty thousand tonnes of batteries that

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americans throw out each year Thank you Hell on musk

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that makes us sit up and notice the other choices

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Provide information about topic but lonely There Don't forget the

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author's purpose or fit in his follow up to the

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sense So just kind of there They're like good not

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directly related and this is kind of a gut feel

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things so it was not an easy one but the 00:02:06.49 --> [endTime] answer is a that said shmoop

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