Bike helmet supporters claim that helmets reduce the risk of severe injury, citing studies that compare medical outcomes of those who crash with and without a helmet. However, those critical of bike helmets argue that while the rate of severe injury decreases with a helmet, the likelihood of an accident increases due to factors like reduced peripheral visibility. These lines of reasoning reveal that bike safety is often not simple to define and requires more careful analysis. Which of the following statements best expresses the main conclusion of the above argument?

A. Bike safety is a complex issue.
B. Bike helmets obstruct peripheral vision.
C. Bike helmets reduce the risk of severe injury.

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What is emphasized in william carlos williams’s “landscape with the fall of icarus” but not in pieter brueghel’s landscape with the fall of icarus? what conclusions can you draw about the similarities and differences between the themes of the work? english 9 - 3.3.9 practice - apex learning

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.