The purpose of this task is for students to solve a mathematical problem using points in the coordinate plane. This task also helps lay the foundation for understanding operations on signed numbers without formally introducing those notions, which are not expected until 7th grade (see 7.NS.1).
Theresa Ann Lane Haggard is around 56 years old. She was 33 in 1993 when she married Merle, who was 56 then (born April 6, 1937). She was his 5th wife.
Ann Patchett and the ghost of Lucy Grealy. Anatomy of a friendship. They were the closest of friends: Lucy Grealy, a difficult, gifted writer disfigured by cancer, and Ann Patchett, writer and good Catholic girl. But after Grealy died of a heroin overdose, the now famous Patchett made their bond the subject of her new book.