ONLY NEED Part 4 + 5

Managing Sentence Content L06-7, 106-8, 106-9 Page 206 Make these sentences more readable, and the main points clear, by breaking them up, tightening the wording, and/or restructuring them. 1. Records were set Wednesday by both the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index, which closed at 8,001.40 up 27.08 points, topping its previous high of 7,986.50, and Standard & Poor's 500 Index, which finished at 1,264.03, up 6.90, setting a five-day high. 2. Reserving this property requires a $500 security deposit, which will be refunded unless there is damage to the property or evidence that there has been smoking in the cottage or a pet on the premises or if the reservation is canceled within 30 days prior to the rental period. 3. The Consumer Education Committee is assigned the duties of keeping informed of the qualities of all consumer goods and services, especially of their strengths and shortcomings, of gathering all pertinent information on dealers' sales practices, with emphasis on practices involving honest and reasonable fairness, and of publicizing any of the information collected that may be helpful in educating the consumer. 4. As you will not get this part of Medicare automatically, even if you are covered by Social Security, you must sign up for it and pay $88.50 per month, which the government will match, if you want your physician's bills to be covered. 5. Given our discussion yesterday, I have decided that you may choose either to take the final exam or to have the paper for which you received your highest grade count as an additional 15 percent of your course grade, but you must let me know in writing by May 1 which of these options you prefer or else the exam will be mandatory. 6. Although we have not definitely determined the causes for the decline in sales volume for the month, we know that during this period construction on the street adjacent to the store severely limited traffic flow and that because of resignations in the advertising department, our promotion efforts dropped well below normal