<p>p.535 #16
if a + 2b is equal to 125 percent of 4b, what is the value of a/b?
ans: 3</p>
<p>p.536 #2
after marching for four hours in temperatures exceeding ninety degrees, the band members were as soaked as (if marching) through a rainstorm.
ans: (if they had marched); isn't if marching more parallel?</p>
<p>p.537 #6
Naomi and Charles will represent Ammonton High in the debating (contest, their work in this havinb been excellent this year).
ans: (contest, for their work as public speakers has been excellent this year)</p>
<p>p.541 #33
(An earl rebelled in London, so that) a messenger rode for days to tell the distant head of the Paston family of a feared civil war.
ans: Once, when an earl rebelled in London,
why isn't it (An earl had rebelled in London, so)</p>