Claim 1: Only 3 percent of the world's leading fashion companies are responsible for over 50 percent of the world's fashion waste. Tons of clothing that is not sold ends up in landfills every year. It is up to these companies to find a solution to this waste problem.

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Claim 1: Only 3 percent of the world's leading fashion companies are responsible for over 50 percent of the world's fashion waste. Tons of clothing that is not sold ends up in landfills every year. It is up to these companies to find a solution to this waste problem.
Claim 2: Have you ever seen all those photos of landfills with overflowing clothing? Most of it is
"last year's" fashions, tossed out when they're no longer "cool." It's time we did something about it.
Which of the following choices
compares and contrasts the styles of the claims correctly?Claim 1 is formal and offers more reasons and evidence than Claim
• 2. Claim 2 is also formal due to its complex sentence structure, but it is geared toward a younger audience.
Claim 1 is informal because it uses contractions a in tea ra touse it.
addresses the audience as you.
Claim 1 has a formal style with advanced vocabulary and complex
• syntax. Claim 2 has an informal style, addressing the audience as you and using contractions.
Claim 1 has an informal style with advanced vocabulary and complex
• syntax. Claim 2 has a formal style, addressing the audience as you and using contractions.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The correct comparison of the styles of Claim 1 and Claim 2 is:

Claim 1 has a formal style with advanced vocabulary and complex syntax. Claim 2 has an informal style, addressing the audience as you and using contractions.

Claim 1 presents statistics and a more authoritative tone, using formal language. In contrast, Claim 2 employs a conversational tone, includes direct address ("you"), and is less formal in its structure.