The reader can tell that this excerpt is part of the poems resolution because the speaker

hey kid learn to actually put time and effort into your school work and maybe you would get higher grades and not have to come on this website and beg for answer's

well people will have to mark your answer as the best answer. and from that u receive crowns.

~batmans wife dun dun

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)