Soma is a drug that is handed out for free to all the citizens of the World State. In small doses, soma makes people feel good. John sees soma as a tool of social control. He says that taking soma makes the citizens of the World State “slaves.”
198 ÷ 20 = 9.9
Whenever a question asks how many times a number goes into a number, this means division.
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