"If the minimum wage rate is higher than the
equilibrium wage rate, fewer people will be
hired because the cost of labor is too high.” Do
you agree or disagree?

yes yes it does !

different routes can lead to sammy to different places, with different roads.   if you check a map, you can see the routes.   try to make connections of the places and count how many there are.   hope this : )

wallop

to hot or strike with a hand blow

explanation:

i would believe it would be b., the author wants to draw the reader deeper into the experience