How might using notice and note to record numbers and statistics help a reader understand why the author used those numbers or amounts in the text?

Author uses numbers or words to

show comparisons or create an

image in the reader’s mind.

Explanation:

Dates, specific numerical amounts,

majority, some, everyone, many, half,

several, ratio, percent

- Elizabethan manners.

Explanation:

The passage is basically dealing with the "etiquette rules" if an individual happens to be a part of the member of the court in Queen Elizabeth I's time. The passage gives a few facts about how a lady or a noble of the court is expected to behave when in the presence of the sovereign. But these etiquette list of rules were sometimes so complex even for the people concerned. The Queen may be given a number of dishes and she will chose what she wants to eat. Then the remaining dishes will be eaten by the others. Likewise, nobody is to turn his back on the monarch, so to avoid showing one's back to the Queen, the people usually have to walk backwards while retreating from the presence of the Queen. Such are the types of etiquette rules prevalent and followed during Queen Elizabeth I's reign. So, the passage is mainly dealing with the topic of Elizabethan manners to be followed.