What role do the first three paragraphs play in the overall structure of the story?
1. They provide context for the narrator's job,
2.They set the tone for the narrator's fear of cemeteries,
3.They give clues about the narrator's past,
4. They introduce the riarrator's interest in learning about the past

1. They provide context for the narrator's job,

Explanation:

This is usually the case unless the story is written to show otherwise.

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