The two small dogs face each other on the sidewalk outside the store their teeth were bared .the fur on their backs stood straight up and low growls could be heard from each of them. just then store owner brought out a dog bone for each and tails began to wag . what is the central idea in the passage ?

a. angry dogs can be distracted by food
b. small dogs tend to get into fights
c. hungry dogs wag their tails for bones
d. many dogs do not get along

I would go with A.

Small dogs can get into fights, but so can big dogs. And medium fogs-any dog can get into a fight.

Hungry dogs can wag their tails for bones, but it never said that these two dogs were hungry.

Many dogs do not get a long. True, but it never implied that in this passage-there were only two dogs.

A is right because there were two angry dogs and they did get distracted by food.

I hope this helped :)

the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.  

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.