Which words in the sentence make up the entire participial phrase? splashing in the ocean, lauren laughed joyfully and felt as though she were far away from her daily worries. a. as though she were far away b. laughed joyfully c. from her daily worries d. splashing in the ocean

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)

. a function is a relation in which each input has only one output. in the relation , y is a function of x, because for each input x (1, 2, 3, or 0), there is only one output y. x is not a function of y, because the input y = 3 has multiple outputs: x = 1 and x = 2.