Read the passage from the american plague. knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. he closed up his house and fled across new jersey to manhattan island. knox was turned away from manhattan and wound up in elizabethtown, new jersey, where he spent two weeks in quarantine. this passage contains a)the central cause of the story. b)cause-and-effect relationship. c)signal words that explain a cause. d) signal words that explain an effect.

This passage contains a B) cause-and-effect relationship.

Explanation: A cause-and-effect relationship consists in two or events that are connected to each other because one is a result from the other/s. In other words, one of the events determines why something happened, and the other event refers to the consequence of that event. In this passage from The American Plague, the fact that Knox lost his warrior instinct is the cause, while having closed up his house and travelling from New Jersey to Manhattan Island is the effect.

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

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

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