Odysseus and his men then took the timber and heated the sharpened end in the fire until it glowed red. Then, with all their strength, they pushed the red-hot point into the eye of Polyphemus.
Simplify the expression and you get: 8.6
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You can break 98 into 2 49's. Hopefully, we know that 49 is 7 * 7, so 98 is 7 * 14. The correct answer is 14. :)