Identify the choice that best describes the sentences in questions 7–8.
Each year, Americans eat 152 pounds of refined sugar per person; this is 24 pounds more than in 1970.
simple
compound
complex
compound-complex
compound
Explanation: The sentence "Each year, Americans eat 152 pounds of refined sugar per person; this is 24 pounds more than in 1970." consists of two independent clauses joined by a semicolon. The first clause is "Each year, Americans eat 152 pounds of refined sugar per person," and the second clause is "this is 24 pounds more than in 1970." There are no dependent clauses in the sentence, making it a compound sentence, not complex or compound-complex. It is not simple because it does not consist of just one independent clause.