Please Help! How is Pedro's situation ironic?

Today was the big day. Pedro was interviewing for the job of his dreams. Nobody, not even Pedro himself could believe that there was a job that paid for blogging about and taking pictures of rare trees around the world. When Pedro had majored in photography, journalism, and biology in college, his parents had thought that he was losing his mind. They were worried that their brilliant son was wasting his genius. So, today was the day Pedro had to prove that it was all worth it.
Pedro ironed his dry-cleaned suit again, flossed his teeth, fixed every strand of his unruly hair, and got dressed for the interview. He drove to the café where he was meeting George Beforeman, the potential boss, and ordered a cold coffee to kill time. Pedro was calm until he saw someone fitting the description of George enter the front door. It was at the precise moment that George smiled at Pedro that Pedro spilled his cold coffee on his crisp suit.

A. Pedro orders cold coffee while he is trying to kill time before the interview.
B. Pedro ends up ruining the suit while trying hard to make a good impression.
C. Pedro tries too hard to appear crisp in front of the potential employer.
D. Pedro is smart, but he wants to waste his time researching rare trees.

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

b

explanation:

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.