Read this claim from paragraph 2 of the passage: Ten years later, mobile phones were available to the public, and since then cell phone technology has completely changed
communication.

Which type of evidence does the author use to support this claim?

Select one:
O a. Facts and statistics
O b. Expert opinion
O c.
Anecdotal evidence
O d. No evidence

O a. Facts and statistics.

Explanation:

The given sentence is taken from the text "Cell Phones: Classroom Technology of the Future" which talks about the influence of cell phones in our lives. The text also ventures into how this once-simple device for phone calls became an extreme, even at times, over the top, priority in our daily lives.

In stating that "ten years later, mobile phones were available to the public, . . . completely chang[ing] communication", the author is using facts and statistics to support his argument.

Thus, the correct answer is option a.

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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