Which question can Christa ask herself to best form a personal connection with the text?
Christa read the following paragraph
Hazel leaned her back against the wild oak tree and
watched the moonlight filter down through the branches
overhead. Her small campfire sent up occasional spurts
of sparks into the night air, which hummed with the
sound of crickets. She closed her eyes, enjoying the
smell of burning branches and wet earth
O What themes does this novel share with the stories !
studied in school?
O How can I learn more information about the area
where this novel takes place?
O What does the narrator have in common with
characters in other books I have read?
O How do the experiences of the main character
compare with my memories of camping?

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

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