Select the Letter of the Answer That Arranges the Ideas

question 42

Multiple Choice

Select the letter of the answer that arranges the ideas that develop each of the topic sentences below in their order of importance. Begin with the most important (or largest, most severe, most surprising) and continue to the least important. For three reasons, motorists should not exceed the posted speed limit.
____ At highway speeds, driving too fast can lower gas mileage by as much as 33 percent, resulting in higher gasoline bills.
____ People who drive the speed limit are less likely to cause or be involved in traffic accidents that injure and kill.
____ Driving the speed limit will eliminate the worry of getting a speeding ticket and having to pay hundreds of dollars in fines and court costs.

• A) 1, 3, 2
• B) 3, 1, 2
• C) 3, 2, 1

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Definitions:

RRSP

Registered Retirement Savings Plan, a retirement savings and investing vehicle for employees and the self-employed in Canada that offers tax benefits.

Ordinary Annuity

A series of equal payments made at regular intervals, with the interest compounding at the end of each period; commonly found in retirement accounts and loan repayments.

Ordinary Annuity

A financial product resulting in payments of a fixed amount received or paid at the end of period intervals.

Compounded Monthly

The process of adding interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit, or in other words, interest on interest, with this process happening every month.