International ______ transportation makes it easier and less expensive to travel abroad than to rural U.S. locations.

David told his audience, "If every American recycled just one plastic bottle a day, it would yield 200 tons of recycled plastic." In order to enhance the significance of his statistic, he has ____ it

a. exploded b. illustrated c. stacked d. hypothesized

In persuasive speaking, the decision whether or not to present both sides of an issue rests on __________.

A. the speaker's ability to use gestures B. the audience's evaluation of the speaker's credibility C. the speaker's knowledge of the topic D. the organizational pattern chosen for the speech