Locate the main idea sentence in each of the selections that…
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Lоcаte the mаin ideа sentence in each оf the selectiоns that follow. Then, in the space provided, write the number of the main idea sentence (Just the number of the sentence, nothing else. For example, if you think that the main idea is sentence, one, just write number 1 in the blank space. C. 1. The average Native American has only eight years of schooling. 2.Unemployment generally ranges between 45 and 55 percent, but reaches 80 percent in some areas and seasons. 3. Almost half of employed Native Americans who live on the reservations work in some capacity for government agencies. 4. About a third of the Native American population lives below the poverty line, and many, if not most, reservation dwellings are substandard: thousands of people are living in unheated log houses, tar-paper shacks, old tents, caves, and even abandoned automobile bodies. 5. The life expectancy of the average Native American is ten years below that of the nation as a whole. 6. The suicide rate is double the national average, and the alcoholism rate is at least five times as high. 7. All in all, the current social and economic position of the Native American is probably worse than that of any other minority group in the United States.