“It’s” is a contraction of “it is” and “its” is used when saying something belongs to someone like “the dog was small, so its house was also small”
The importance in the opening scene is that it is able to show devotion and friendship in the first characters that has been shown in the merchant of venice, created by Shakesphere. The characters are namedly, Antonio and Bassinio. They were able to show their friendship in the opening scene as a strong and devoted relationship and how they were able to show it with the given scenarios.
6/8 is greater all you need to do is cross multiply take the 2 x8=16 16 goes over the 2/5 now cross multiply 6x5=30 30 over the 6 now what ever number is bigger over that fraction is greater hope this helps
Heard violins playing & was where you steer the boat & he seen how everyone was just running to jump off & so much crying