Read the excerpt from fast food nation. cooking instructions are not only printed in the manual, they are often designed into the machines. a mcdonald’s kitchen is full of buzzers and flashing lights that tell employees what to do. the evidence presented in this excerpt best supports the author’s claim that a- mcdonald’s is the leader in fast food innovation. b-fast food restaurants use technology designed to reduce the need for skilled labor. c-technology has improve the fast food industry. d-the workers’ limited skills have forced fast food employers to rely on machines instead of people.

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i believe the answer is B less skill is needed to work at McDonald's completely true!  

B-fast food restaurants use technology designed to reduce the need for skilled labor.

The evidence best supports the statement that fast food restaurants use technology to reduce the need for skilled labor. In the evidence it shows that the employees only need to follow the buzzers and flashing lights to make the food. This allows means that McDonald's does not need to hire cooks or specialized labor in order to make the food. This also helps to have a consistent product across all of the McDonald's franchises.

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).

substitute y = 2x - 4 to x + 2y = 12:

x + 2(2x - 4) = 12     use distributive property

x + (2)(2x) + () = 12

x + 4x - 8 = 12     add 8 to both sides

5x = 20     divide both sides by 5

x = 4

put the value of x to the first equation:

y = 2(4) - 4

y = 8 - 4

y = 4