read the selection below from the short story "the pit and the pendulum" by edgar allan poe and answer the
question that follows.
amid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm. i
rushed to its deadly brink. i threw my straining vision below. the glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost recesses.
yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend the meaning of what i saw. at length it forced it wrestled its way
into my soul-it burned itself in upon my shuddering reason. o for a voice to speak! -oh, horror! -oh, any horror but this!
with a shriek i rushed from the margin and buried my face in my hands-weeping bitterly.
which word best describes the narrator in the passage above?
humorous
determined
frightened
insensitive

The word that best describes the narrator in the given passage is – (C) frightened.

Explanation:

The narrator has opened the story by mentioning that he has been sentenced to death during the time of the Inquisition which was an institution of the Catholic Government that prosecuted all protestants and heretical Catholics.

In the given excerpt, the narrator is going through the mental trauma after receiving the death sentence. He is unable to comprehend as in what was happening around. He is imagining himself locked into a pit and fidgets to get out, and after failing in his attempts, he is filled with horror that death has impended upon him.

answer: this problem has only trivial solutions, with all points on the same line. x=5 or x=7/5.

step-by-step explanation:

there are three triangles, and three unknowns: x, y=length of middle segment, and z=cos(angles marked with red arc).

we need

and law of cosines,

the three equations are

see attached image for solution.

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