Using Strategies and Word Patterns: The Code Book

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One of the author’s purposes in The Code Book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. Which line best demonstrates this purpose?

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a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key

mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques

a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . . in a computer's display unit

if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . . enormous speed

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Using Strategies and Word Patterns: The Code Book

Question 4 of 13 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 9 B Credit Recovery 5 Credits

One of the author’s purposes in The Code Book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. Which line best demonstrates this purpose?

Answer

a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key

mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques

a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . . in a computer's display unit

if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . . enormous speed

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Structure and Narrative: Rosa Parks' Memoir, My Story

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Evaluating an Argument and Questioning: The Code Book