I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with

both hands, and went off with a thud. The laboratory got

hazy and went dark. Mrs. Watchett came in and walked,

apparently without seeing me, towards the garden door. I

suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but

to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket. I

pressed the lever over to its extreme position. The night

came like the turning out of a lamp, and in another moment

came tomorrow. The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then

fainter and ever fainter. Tomorrow night came black, then

day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still. An

eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb

confusedness descended on my mind. “I am afraid I cannot

convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling. They are

excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that

one has upon a switchback—of a helpless headlong

motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an

imminent smash. As I put on pace, night followed day like

the flapping of a black wing. The dim suggestion of the

laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I

saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every

minute, and every minute marking a day.

in the problem you wrote said that the taxi charges $0.070 per mile(which would be 7 cents per mile), but then in your suggested equation you have it as $0.70 per mile (which is 70 cents per mile).

the latter seems more realistic, so i will assume that the taxi costs $5.00 and charges $0.70 per mile with tolls costing an additional $3.50. and it asks you to find how far you can travel on $36.50.

let x the number of miles traveled. since the taxi charges $0.70 per mile, multiplying this by the miles traveled (x) will yield the cost of the taxi ride as far as how far it took you. then adding this amount to the cost of the taxi ($5.00) and the additional cost for the tolls ($3.50) will give you the total cost of the taxi ride ($36.50)

that is,

            (0.70)x + 5.00 + 3.50 = 36.50

adding the like terms on the left-hand side of this equation, we arrive at the following:

            (0.70)x + 8.50 = 36.50

subtracting 8.50 from both sides of the equation, we get:

            (0.70)x = 28.00

to solve for x, divide both sides of the equation above by the coefficient of x (that being, 0.70):

            x = 40

thus, you can travel up to 40 miles on $36.50

to gain popularity at school, fitzgerald wrote plays for the school and cast himself as the star. he also joined one of the universitys most prestigious clubs.