Read the excerpt from chapter 10 of animal farm. the farm possessed three horses now besides clover. they were fine upstanding beasts, willing workers and good comrades, but very stupid. none of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter b. they accepted everything that they were told about the rebellion and the principles of animalism, especially from clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect; but it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it. which statement best explains how orwell uses dramatic irony in this passage to reveal the theme that knowledge can be lost between generations? the reader knows that the horses were good workers with corrupt ideals. the reader knows that clover gains respect because she could explain the rebellion and animalism. the reader knows clover’s language gives her the ability to abuse her power over the other horses. the reader understands the history of the rebellion, but the new horses do not.

The answer above is correct: he reader understands the history of the rebellion, but the new horses do not.

Explanation:

Animal Farm is a novella by George Orwell in which he uses allegory to criticize the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals of a farm choose to expel the human owner and take over the farm. In the beginning, their goal is to live in an equal society, where no one rules and every one works in favor of every one. Such an ideal caves in when the pigs, the most intelligent animals, realize the advantages of being in power. With time, they start to oppress the other animals and spread falsehoods to keep them ignorant to reality.

That is precisely what is being described in the excerpt we are studying here. The new horses are not told the truth. The irony is in the fact that the reader knows how bad the real situation is while the horses don't.

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

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