Read the excerpt from The Call of the Wild.
The descriptive language in this scene best shows readers
that Buck is
All the stiffness and gloss had gone out of his beautiful
furry coat. The hair hung down, limp and draggled... His
muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh
pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in
his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide.
O angry and resentful.
O nervous and tired.
weak ani gaunt
O gloomy and hopeless.

(c)
Weak and gaunt

O. Weak and gaunt .

Explanation:

Jack London's The Call of the Wild tells the story of a dog named Buck who begins his life as a domestic pet but ended up becoming the leader of a pack of wolves in the wild. The whole plot delves into the various stages of his journey into the wild.

The given excerpt from the text is a description of Buck who seemed to have lost his physical healthy stature. He now seemed weaker, his furry coat devoid of gloss, "limp and draggled" under the power of his new master Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. He looked so thin that "his muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide". All of these physical descriptions of Buck is a descriptive language to show Buck's weak and gaunt position/ condition.  

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.