Abox contains 5 plain pencils and 5 pens. a second box contains 7 color pencils and 5 crayons. one item from each box is chosen at random. what is the probability that a pen from the first box and a crayon from the second box are selected?

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event