Who says the following and why? hear me, my lords and captains of phaeacia! let demodocus rest his ringing lyre now— this song he sings can hardly us all. *

odysseus is pleading with his hosts to stop the song. it is too sorrowful.

odysseus is unimpressed with demodocus's skills as a bard.

alcinous is halting the song because odysseus is crying—again.

alcinous is hungry and is tiring of song.

Alcinous is halting the song because Odysseus is crying—again.

This scene occurs while Odysseus is in Phaeacia, in the court of Alcinous. While attending a banquet, the blind bard Demodocus sings of the adventures of Odysseus in Troy. Specifically, he sings of the quarrel between Odysseus and Achilles. However, this song brings sad memories to Odysseus, who starts crying. Seeing how upset his guest is, Alcinous decides to halt the song.

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