If You Try to Persuade Your Parents to Pay for You

question 246

Multiple Choice

If you try to persuade your parents to pay for you to take a two-week tour of Europe next summer,you would be MOST likely to be successful if you first

• A) ask for an all-expense-paid six-week tour.
• B) ask for an all-expense-paid one-week tour.
• C) explain that the trip will be beneficial to you as a European history major.
• D) promise to work "extra hard" in your courses next semester.

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