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Drawing Inferences and Conclusions Directions: Read the Following Passage

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Drawing Inferences and Conclusions Directions: Read the following passage. Then select the appropriate letter to identify the inference readers need to draw from the text to fully understand the authors' meaning.
¹What makes a young person a potential candidate for suicide? ²It's hard to say since suicide is a complex behavioral pattern determined by biological, psychological, social, and environmental influences. ³Our knowledge tends to be limited because of the difficulties associated with studying suicidal behavior. ⁴But there are some things that we do know. ⁵Many teenagers who commit suicide do so following acute experiences of punishment, rejection or humiliation. ⁶Revenge or anger may also play a role. ⁷When young adults commit suicide, the target of their anger is often parents, a romantic partner, or someone else who may have rejected the person contemplating suicide. ⁸Some young people also threaten suicide to manipulate the behavior of those around them. ⁹Others view suicide as a way of atoning for some previous sin.
Adapted from Kathleen D.Mullen et al., Connections for Health , p.327
Sentences 5-8 appear in the passage in order to further explain which of the following phrases?

Definitions:

Independent Events

Independent events are two or more events whose outcomes do not influence each other, meaning the occurrence of one event does not affect the probability of the other.

Mutually Exclusive Events

Two or more events that cannot occur at the same time in any given experiment or real-life situation.

Conditional Probability

The probability of one event occurring with some relationship to one or more other events.

Conditional Probability

The probability of an event occurring given that another event has already occurred.