Weighing advantages and disadvantages can help a student to

identify a problem.
make a decision.
evaluate a solution.
gather information.

from my own personal expirence food stamps has alot this makes it eaiser so we can affod bills and so we can life a better lifestyle not needing to worry about paying actual money to buy food since most people spend 100-300 dollars a month on food so this alot so we can afford other bills and other stuff we need

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do

a variant spelling of the word dote (british)