Read the excerpt from The Number Devil.

"And besides . . . I hate everything that has to do with numbers."

“And why is that, may I ask?"

“You sound as though you never went to school. Or maybe you are a teacher yourself?

"'If 2 pretzel makers can make 444 pretzels in 6 hours, how long does it take 5 pretzel makers to make 88 pretzels?'"

"How dumb can you get!" said Robert. "A colossal waste of time if you ask me. So get going! Scram! Shoo!"

What is Robert trying to accomplish?

He is trying to persuade the number devil to leave him alone.
He is trying to help the number devil solve a math problem.
He is trying to find out if the number devil is educated.
He is trying to prove that the number devil is imaginary.

"the story of icarus and daedalus," by ovid and "musée des beaux arts," by w. h. auden. then answer the question. what information in auden's poem is not included in ovid's story of icarus and daedalus?

Name five of the six points you should check, or have checked, when you are practicing your speech by recording it or with a f listening

What is darrow’s main argument and the claims he makes in this excerpt? a. darrow argues that even if the boys are horrible monsters, their deaths will not solve the problems of society; he claims that society wants the boys to be executed because people enjoy watching public executions. b. he argues that the people who should be held responsible for the crime are leopold’s and loeb’s parents since they neglected their sons; he claims that leopold and loeb were jealous of the boy they killed because he had expensive belongings they could not afford. c. darrow argues that the boys should not face the death penalty; he claims they both suffer from mental illnesses that make them unable to tell the difference between a dream and reality. d. he argues that leopold and loeb, particularly dickie loeb, should not be executed; he claims they were teenagers who didn’t have proper adult guidance, so they are not responsible for what they did.