Which of the following states the pythagorean theorem?

a. in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the legs.
b. in a right triangle, the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the legs.
c. in a right triangle, the hypotenuse equals the sum of the legs.
d. in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the legs.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Do you think that the american culture has defined what “normal” is and so our perception of chris mccandless is skewed based on that?

Read the sentence. thomas jefferson himself worked on a draft of the document. what kind of pronoun is himself?