Shanika and Vanesa are comparing their electric bills for the past month. Shanika is on a standard use plan and Vanesa is on an interval use plan. Each person’s usage is listed on the chart below: Standard Use Plan Interval Use Plan 7. 5 cents/kWh for the first 400 kWh 10 cents/kWh for the next 400 kWh 12. 5 cents/kWh for anything over 800 kWh On-peak hours - 15 cents/kWh Off-peak hours - 3 cents/kWh Both women use 1,325 kWh for the given 30 day period. Vanesa uses 500 kWh during on-peak hours and 825 during off-peak hours. Which person ends up paying more for their utilities? How much more? a. Vanesa pays $35. 88 more than Shanika. B. Vanesa pays $99. 75 more than Shanika. C. Shanika pays $35. 88 more than Vanesa. D. Shanika pays $99. 75 more than Vanesa.

probably a 9

explanation:

answer: compare a myth legend, or classic work of literature of you choice to a modern work that reinterprets it.focus on the similarities in theme between the newer work and the original, and provide examples that illustrate these themes from both works. the modern work may be any novel, movie, play, short story, or other storytelling medium with which you’re familiars long as it is clearly inspired by a myth, legend, or classic work of literature.

short-response prompt  

read the following excerpt from “fish cheeks” by amy tannin which tan recounts a christmas eve dinner.  

i fell in love with the minister’s son the winter i turned fourteen. he was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger. for christmas i prayed for this blond-haired boy, robert, and a slim new american nose.  

on christmas eve i saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. she was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. the kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: a slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. a howl soaking dried fungus back to life. a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.  

after everyone had gone, my mother said to me. “you want to be the same as american girls on the outside.” she handed me an early gift. it was a miniskirt in beige tweed. “but in side you must always be chinese. you must be proud you are different. your only shame is to have shame.”

answer:

WHO THE FRKINFOOK

IS PAUL

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