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Okay people Here we go Next question The purpose of

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nine january two thousand nine in footnote to write there

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is to note the date what It may seem pointless

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to be required to know when the author access the

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site but footnotes for websites need to show that information

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because website to change all the time looking from up

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right If it was accessed in two thousand nine it

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may not still be there so it's like mentioning the

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addition of a book The seventeen oh six edition of

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the bible probably doesn't have moses hopping down the mountain

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on the same page that a two thousand eleven edition

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would write well January ninth two thousand nine is the

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day the web site was visited not updated So get

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rid of the right away It also wasn't the day

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that passage was written Don't get rid of it A

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and february twenty two two thousand five is the date

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of publishing Get rid of c would be logical to

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conclude that also the date the passage was posted So

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get rid of e right answer here Yet its be

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the author of the passage reds Appiah's article and that

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was it So answer is b

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