A flexible pavement has a 4-inch sand-mix asphalt wearing surface, 10-inch soil-cement base, and a 10-inch crushed stone subbase. It is designed to withstand 400 20-kip single-axle loads and 900 35- kip tandem-axle loads per day. The subgrade CBR is 8, the overall standard deviation is 0.45, the initial PSI is 4.2, and the final PSI is 2.5. What is the probability that this pavement will have a PSI above 2.5 after 25 years

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

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