Which sentence uses figurative language to create an image in the reader's mind?
a. did you know that a giraffe's tongue is blue-black and over twenty inches long?
b. as i walked into the dark, dank basement, the hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up.
c. the rainforest near the amazon river is teaming with a variety of wildlife and vegetation.
d. my sister lives in the mountains near one of the many civil war battlegrounds.

You are remodeling your kitchen. you’ve contacted two tiling companies who gladly told you how long it took their workers to tile of a similar size jim completed half the floor in 8 hours. pete completed half of the other floor in 7 hours. if pete can lay 20 more tiles per hour than jim, at what rate can jim lay tiles

The label on the car's antifreeze container claims to protect the car between ? 40°c and 125°c. to convert celsius temperature to fahrenheit temperature, the formula is c = 5 over 9 (f ? 32). write and solve the inequality to determine the fahrenheit temperature range at which this antifreeze protects the car. ? 40 > 5 over 9 (f ? 32) > 125; ? 40 > f > 257 ? 40 < 5 over 9 (f ? 32) < 125; ? 40 < f < 257 ? 40 < 5 over 9 (f ? 32); ? 40 < f 5 over 9 (f ? 32) < 125; f < 257

The box plots show the average speeds, in miles per hour, for the race cars in two different races. which correctly describes the consistency of the speeds of the cars in the two races?