Read this excerpt from a room of one's own by virginia woolf:
betrothal often took place while one or both of the parties
was in the cradle, and marriage when they were scarcely
out of the nurses' charge.' that was about the
next reference to the position of women is some two
hundred years later. 'it was still the exception for
women of the upper and middle class to choose their own
husbands, and when the husband had been assigned, he
was lord and master. . yet even so, professor trevelyan
concludes, 'neither shakespeare's women nor those of
authentic seventeenth-century memoirs seem wanting
in personality and character!
which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt to develop?

Women were represented as being strong in literature but were not allowed power in real life.

Option D.

Explanation:

The paragraph above talks about the women and their condition during the time of Shakespeare. The ladies during that time were not given much power in their social life. Too the extent, that they did not have the power to choose their own husbands also.

They were assigned husbands and once that was done, they had to consider their husbands as lords and masters. But the situation was different regarding the literature of that time. They had a great impact in the literature of that time.

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i think i seen this before

substitute y = 2x - 4 to x + 2y = 12:

x + 2(2x - 4) = 12     use distributive property

x + (2)(2x) + () = 12

x + 4x - 8 = 12     add 8 to both sides

5x = 20     divide both sides by 5

x = 4

put the value of x to the first equation:

y = 2(4) - 4

y = 8 - 4

y = 4