"As Brave As You Expect" - Read these lines from the passage. "The Honda was bumping its way up a hill, and the limbs looked like long fingers on big stick hands trying to get in and grab him."

The author used the figurative expression "limbs looked like long fingers on big stick hands" to emphasize---

small european communities with shared traditions consolidated into large new states (apex)

simplify brackets

8 - 2a - 7 = a + 40

simplify 8 - 2a - 7 to -2a + 1

-2a + 1 = a + 40

add 2a to both sides

1 = a + 40 + 2a

simplify a + 40 + 2a to 3a + 40

1 = 3a + 40

subtract 40 from both sides

1 - 40 = 3a

simplify 1 - 40 o -39

-39 = 3a

divide both sides by 3

-39/3 = a

simplify 39/3 to 13

-13 = a

switch sides

a = -13

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