Read the excerpt from the hunger of memory by richard rodriguez.
i have taken caliban’s advice. i have stolen their books. i will have some run of this isle.

once upon a time, i was a “socially disadvantaged” child. an enchantedly happy child. mine was a childhood of intense family closeness. and extreme public alienation.

thirty years later i write this book as a middle-class american man. assimilated.
what is rodriguez's most likely purpose for including the allusion to caliban in this excerpt?

a. to show how he has gained an education outside the classroom

b. to show that he is interested in learning more about classic literature

c. to illustrate how devoted he is to classic literature

d. to illustrate his views about the power of education

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

choice 2 i like that prompt better.

which lines in this excerpt from act i of shakespeare's romeo and juliet suggest that lord capulet respects free will?