Mark the statement about the german states and people if it is correct.
a.
by 1800, the holy roman empire was little more than a loose collection of separate states.
b.
the people of the german states shared customs and language but did not think of themselves as belonging to one nation.
c.
the german-speaking people began to feel a common bond with each other when napoleon conquered them and they fell under french rule.

The correct answers are A) by the 1800s, the Holy Roman Empire was Little more than a loose collection of separated states, B) the people from German states shared customs and language but they did not think of themselves as belonging to one nation, and C) the German-speaking people began to feel a common bond with each other when Napoleon conquered them and they felt under French rule.

The statements about the German states and people that are correct are “by the 1800s, the Holy Roman Empire was Little more than a loose collection of separated states, the people from German states shared customs and language but they did not think of themselves as belonging to one nation, and the German-speaking people began to feel a common bond with each other when Napoleon conquered them and they felt under French rule.

German unification was the product of the efforts of the aristocratic Prussian Otto von Bizmark. People in those territories did not consider themselves of the same nationality although they spoke the same language and shared the same customs. They respected each other and respected their territories. But when Napoleon conquered those territories, people started to feel more closeness with each other.  

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: