The excerpt refers to Chiapas as "the beast.” What is the purpose of using this metaphor in the excerpt? to show how threatening travel through Chiapas is to show that few people are able to live in Chiapas to show how many dishonest people live in Chiapas to show that Chiapas has the most immigration checkpoints

To show how threatening travel through Chiapas is.

Explanation:

Sonia Nazario's novel "Enrique's Journey" revolves around the story of a young boy named Enrique and his journey to America to reunite with his mother. The story delves into the hardships faced by Enrique during the journey and the determination of the young boy in finding his mother.

In the given excerpt from the text, "Chiapas" is described as "the beast" because of the dangerousness of the place. And Enrique had passed the place "eight times", which is sort of a huge achievement. This metaphorical presentation of "Chiapas" shows the threatening and 'risky' condition of what traveling through Chiapas must be.

Thus, the correct answer is the first option.

3rd person, because the narrator is out of the story but explains the feeling of the main character

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