What suggestion presented in your textbook for using supporting materials is used in the following speech excerpt?Since it first opened for business, McDonald's has sold over 100 billion hamburgers. To give you an idea how many hamburgers that is, think of it this way: Since each McDonald's burger (with the bun) is about 2 inches thick, 100 billion hamburgers stacked on top of each other would reach over 3 million miles-fifteen times as far as the moon.

A. Explain your statistics.
B. Use examples to quantify ideas.
C. Present testimony from qualified sources.
D. Quote or paraphrase accurately.
E. Use statistics to personalize ideas.


Answer: A

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