Which of the following statements is a claim of fact?

a) the town council absolutely should not move the greystone monument to a private location.

b) it is wrong to publicly display a monument on government property when it only pays tribute to a single ethnic group.

c) the recent protests downtown were because the greystone monument is racist.

d) the greystone monument has been located in the downtown square for over seventy years.

Read this passage from "the city without us" by alan weisman: which statement best explains how the structure of the passage supports the author's purpose? a. the passage traces several events in the order that they will occur to highlight how nature conquers human civilization. b. the passage shows that natural forces such as an absence of predators and an increase in the squirrel population can lead to destructive results. c. the passage shows that natural forms such as an absence of predators and human hunters can lead to the reforestation of new york city. d. the passage identifies how two natural forces are co-dependent - the deforestation of new york and the extinction of squirrels.