Eas to be refilled after emptying it for winter cleaning. Water
flowing through both a small pipe and large pipe can fill the pool in 7 hours. waren
flowing through the small pipe alone can fill the tank in 18 hours. How many hours
would it take to fill the tank using only the large pipe?

answer:

17 hrs.

Step-by-step explanation:

inverse operation of addition

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