Select the correct answer. What is a useful question to consider before reading a text for the central ideas?    A.  What do you predict the text will be about?  B.  How would you summarize the important events in the text?  C.  How will the text end?  D.  What does the first paragraph reveal about the ideas?

Another friend asks you to explain how to tell whether two events are dependent or independent. How would you reply? Use your own words.

Pet Owners According to the Humane Society, in 2015, 65% of U.S. households owned at least one pet, and 42% of households who did own pets owned at least two. The U.S. Census Bureau tells us that there were 117 million households in 2015. How many households owned at least two pets? Report your answer in millions rounded to two places.