Kennedy discusses how America will protect itself and its allies because
America is a strong and courageous nation.
America is a military leader in the world.
America has the strength of nuclear arms.

Why isn’t Kennedy’s call for the United States to find common ground and cooperate with its enemies a sign of weakness?
He knows that America’s adversaries will never agree to cooperate.
He knows that such cooperation is in his nation’s best interest.
He knows that no such common ground exists.

1.A

2. B

Explanation:

I really don't have the story so I can tell you exactly but, based on my knowledge about the United States, and it's reputation with allies I can infer this is correct.

ANSWER

He knows that such cooperation is in his nation’s best interest.

Explanation: just took the test

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