The snow wasn't blinding, for which Jess was glad. Unfortunately things were slick, and her bottom was wet from multiple falls on the icy sidewalk. Jess cursed herself for not bring an umbrella to use as a cane. It was with relief a few minutes later when she entered the University library. She carefully wiped her feet on the mat and swung her backpack off her shoulder to allow the security guard's inspection. While her fingers and butt started thawing in the delicious heat, her belongings were returned and she settled down at a table by the magazines.

Jess resisted the temptation to flip through the new issue of Cosmetics Weekly and instead pulled out her algebra book. Math was, without a doubt, her worst subject. In fact, she was in the lowest level of math possible. She cursed her friends in calculus and other ridiculously difficult mathematical subjects. With a sigh she opened the book to page 42. The first problem swam before her eyes.

#1: Using the equation A+B+C=D, please solve the following...
a) Solve the equation for "A."
b) Solve the equation for "B" and "C."
c) Come up with a hypothetical situation where you could use the equation to solve a real life situation, labeling A, B, C, and D appropriately.

Refusing to resort to tears, she fished for her cd player in her backpack. With the headphones fit snuggly over her head, she pushed play and found herself listening to her new Lilium cd. The music was calming to her rising panic. The first song, "If They Cheered," had a hypnotic, lullaby effect. The smooth, plucked guitar combined with Italian-sounding melodica (not to mention Kal Cahoone's guest vocals) allowed Jess to relax.

When track three, "Whitewashed," started up, Jess realized that her pen had not made any attempt to work on the problem. She screwed her eyes and read part "c" over a few times. Then, David Eugene Edward's emotional guest vocal on track three acted as a key to Jess' mind. She scrawled, in barely legible (and in all lower case) cursive the following answer for "c."

in my scenario we are going to use the band sixteen horsepower. "a" will equal guitar and vocalist for the band, david eugene edwards. "b" will equal the drummer, jean-yves tola. "c" will be bass player pascal humbert. so edwards plus tola plus humbert equals sixteen horsepower.