Jack. oh! i don’t see much fun in being christened along with other babies. it would be childish. would half-past five do? . chasuble. admirably! admirably! [takes out watch.] and now, dear mr. worthing, i will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. i would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. what seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.. miss prism. this seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.. which two definitions of the word blessing does the pun in this excerpt rely on? . a. approval from someone in charge

b. a religious ceremony called a christening

c. encouragement from a friend

d. grace said at a meal

e. something that brings one happiness

As per the passage from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"; At some point, Jack asks Dr. Chasuble whether he can be initiated in the religious custom known as baptism. He has recently reported that his sibling Ernest has passed away. As a result, Chasuble and Miss Crystal infer that troubled times may actually bring bliss at some point. Which is why the word blessing means baptism and also something happy (blessing in disguise).

The correct answers are:

B. a religious ceremony called a christening

E. something that brings one happiness

2) a religious ceremony called a christening

5) something that brings one happiness

I just took it

can you provide the options?

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