I'd love to help you, but I need the story. maybe u can take a pic then ask the question.
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All of the programs are helpful in alleviating poverty because people don't have to pay for them. Nutrition programs give you food form the country just like housing and free healthcare are made to stop you from wasting your own money on it. All of the programs help people spend money on things that they need and are not for basic survival.
The diction of Steinbeck here in apparently describing the dustbowl conditions of the Dirty Thirties is speaking of "tenant men" or presumably men who were tenant farmers perhaps who were allowed to live on the land in return for working it and that they "scuffed" their way home indicates that the dust was so thick they had to scuff but also perhaps that since they could barely make a living under the poor agricultural conditions they did not walk confidently but scuffed.
2270/454=5 then with the measure ments write them like cm^3/g
so your answer is:
5 cm^3/g
I would assume the blank would be "get" or "return."