Read the excerpt from william faulkner's nobel prize acceptance speech. but i would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which i might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where i am standing. who is faulkner addressing in his speech? a. up-and-coming young writers b. alfred bernhard nobel c. other writers of his generation d. the nobel prize committee

A. up-and-coming young writers.

Explanation: in the given excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, we can see that he is addressing the young men and women that are beginning their career in writing (" I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail") and that might be one day winning a Nobel Prize like he is. So the correct anser is option A.

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

cause they were to dumb to get their college education to become a real   : )