Read the excerpt below and answer the question. "no! if it comes to that, i can earn myself at least six feet of free soil, the first and last i shall ever own in kentucky! " (p.94) in the excerpt above, george's "free soil" is a reference to

In the excerpt above, George's "free soil" is a reference to his grave.

This excerpt in from Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. The book starts with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts.

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