Which best describes the relationship between brainstorming and writing a first draft? A. Brainstorming expands the ideas sketched out in a first draft. B. A first draft begins to develop the ideas generated in brainstorming. C. Brainstorming is not possible without writing a first draft. D. A first draft uses all of the ideas created in brainstorming.

B. A first draft begins to develop the ideas generated in brainstorming.

Explanation:

Brainstorming is when you freely write down all ideas in the order which they occur to you. Effective brainstorming will help one come up with enough ideas to develop a proper outline after which a first draft can be written. A first draft, is the very first version of a piece of writing. It is a rough sketch of what the finished work will be like.

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