Read the excerpt from The Man in the Ice. It is possible that he consumed here the last of his food store: a piece of tough dried ibex meat. Two bone splinters had inadvertently been left in the strip of meat as he cut it off: these he chewed off and spat out. –The Man in the Ice, Konrad Spindler Why is the passage a secondary source? The author witnessed the event. The author provides an interpretation of the event. The author includes specific details about the event. The author found the artifacts that helped describe the event.

answer:   c. the drafting of common sense

explanation:

answer: an oligarchy is a political system in which the government is run by a group of noble families, or the elite wealthy members of a society. a present day oligarchic government is iran.

explanation:

8 - (2a + 7) = a + 40     distribute/multiply - into (2a + 7)

8 - 2a - 7 = a + 40

1 - 2a = a + 40       add 2a on both sides

1 = 3a + 40         subtract 40 on both sides

-39 = 3a       divide 3 on both sides

-13 = a

[proof]

8 - (2a + 7) = a + 40

8 - (2(-13) + 7) = -13 + 40

8 - (-26 + 7) = 27

8 - (-19) = 27

8 + 19 = 27

27 = 27