Read the passage from A Room of One's Own. What message is emphasized by the alliteration and
parallel structure in this passage?
The reason perhaps why we know so little of
Shakespeare-compared with Donne or Ben Jonson
or Milton-is that his grudges and spites and
antipathies are hidden from us. We are not held up by
some "revelation" which reminds us of the writer. All
desire to protest, to preach, to proclaim an injury, to
pay off a score, to make the world the witness of some
hardship or grievance was fired out of him and
consumed. Therefore his poetry flows from him free
and unimpeded.
People who write have more negative than positive
feelings.
Writing provides an important and necessary
emotional outlet.
The feelings of certain writers have been well
documented.
The purpose of writing is to seek revenge on one's
attackers.

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

i'm on the same lesson : / i really don't want to do it..

line a --> main

line b --> young

line c --> atitude