Question

read this excerpt from paragraph 12 of passage 1.
revkin concluded, \im sure the organizers of the quest of mawson trip were as careful as they could be, but was the trip important enough to justify the cost that is now mounting? i doubt it.\
what purpose does the rhetorical question in this excerpt serve?

to emphasize the author’s point that the trip cost too much and wasn’t important enough

to show that revkin doesn’t really understand how much the trip cost and why it was important

to present a counterpoint to the author’s argument that the trip was important even though it was costly

to encourage the reader to do more research to decide whether the trip was important enough to justify the cost

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