PLEASE HURRY 15 POINTS WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the question.

(1) Defoe narrates the day-by-day adventures of a castaway who passes half a lifetime on a desert island. (2) Fielding spins a complicated plot about Tom Jones, whose difficulties resolve themselves in the final chapters like the parts of a mechanism falling into place. (3) Jane Austen keeps the reader interested in the quiet life of a village where nothing more exciting than a dance or an elopement occurs. (4) James Joyce relates, at great length, the adventures and thoughts of several people in Dublin through a single day. (5) What we call the novel is thus an immensely varied literary form.

Select the correct answer.
Which numbered sentence is the topic sentence?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5

should be 2?

Explanation:

sorry if its wrong...

2

Explanation: "Fielding spins a complicated plot about Tom Jones, whose difficulties resolve themselves in the final chapters like the parts of a mechanism falling into place." As shown, Tom Jones, whose hardness is great, the parts of mechanasism fall into place. So, the answer is b, which is 2

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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