Select the correct answer. Who is the speaker of this passage?

When my father died, I was chosen as the next king. I decided to take up my father’s plans to conquer the Greeks. After 10 years of planning an attack, I sent my army and navy to fight the Greeks in the Battle of Thermopylae.

A.
Cyrus the Great
B.
Xerxes I
C.
Darius I
D.
Leonidas
E.
Cambyses

B Xerxes I

Explanation:

Because he is the one is trying to conquer Greece after his dad died.

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.

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: