Read the following excerpt from Sandra Cisneros's story "Mericans." "Girl. We can't play with a girl.” Girl. It's my brothers' favorite insult now instead of “sissy.” “You girl," they yell
at each other. "You throw that ball like a girl.”
Which statement best explains the irony in this excerpt?
The narrator does not even want to play, but her brothers tease her because they think she does.
Although her brothers do not know it, the narrator actually throws the ball far better than either of them does.
Even though the narrator is extremely kind to her brothers, they are exceedingly cruel to her.
As much as the brothers dislike being stereotyped for being "Merican," they stereotype their own sister based on
gender.

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

on my last

what do you mean.

do we have to write a essay?