Critical Thinking Questions Case 6-1 Your Nephew Jim Has Volunteered

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Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 6-1 Your nephew Jim has volunteered to create a website for his high school band. He asks for your suggestions on ways to make the website more interesting and exciting. Jim also is eager to add background music to the website's pages. You tell him to ____.

• A) copy the music from a high-quality music CD
• B) go for it; website visitors typically love background music
• C) be sure to add a control visitors can use to turn the music off and on
• D) use streaming audio so that site visitors can replay the music again and again

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