Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun.
it brought forth a vague memory of a storm on arwad island, when he was just a boy, when the mediterranean rose up and swallowed the lower-sitting homes, the blue-green sea sitting inside living rooms and bedrooms and kitchens. the water breached and dodged the phoenician stones surrounding the island without any difficulty at all.
why does the author include this flashback?
to present various images of nature’s strength throughout history
to prove zeitoun’s good fortune and his ability to overcome adversity
to emphasize the social differences between eastern and western cultures
to recall zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature

The answer is: to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature

Zeitoun grown up in a coastal town, Jableh, in Syria, his father was a ship captain and when he and his brother drown to be sailor as well, after many year in the sea he stablishes in New Orleans, in the story is describes the great storm that evokes his memory of the island, this shows Zeitoun birth town and also that the nature forces universality.

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

its c

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