Why are “free-floaters” important to the mind maps method of reading actively? a. because not all important ideas fit neatly into the mind map you create b. because some subordinate ideas are important and must be indicated with free-floaters c. because showing the relationship between ideas and subordinate ideas is necessary d. because filling the entire page with notes is usually required by the teacher

Read the excerpt from “the railroad earth.” o well anyway i'll be learning eventually to like the railroad and sherman will like me some day, and anyway another day another dollar. the narrator of this excerpt can best be described as friendly.optimistic.wealthy.intelligent.

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed

Evaluate the tone of this cover letter. is it appropriate?