Q: For a fresher, more flavorful coffee, you should buy fresh coffee beans and grind them yourself, rather than buying pre-ground coffee. A coffee's flavor comes from delicate flavor compounds within the cells of the coffee bean. When ground, the coffee bean's interior is exposed to the air and, over time, will react with it, causing the coffee to lose some of its aroma. Be sure to store your coffee beans in an air-tight container. Coffee has odor-absorbing properties - that's why coffee grounds can substitute for baking soda in the fridge. Unfortunately, this also means that if your coffee isn't kept sealed in an air-tight container, you may have garlic-y coffee. Coffee aficionados disagree on whether to store coffee beans at low temperatures. Some recommend keeping coffee beans in the fridge if they will be used within a week and transferring any beans that won't be used for a few weeks to the freezer. Others prefer simply to keep them in a cool, dark place. Different coffee brewing methods may require coarser or thicker grinds for optimum flavor. Because ground beans exchange their flavor compounds with water, changing the coarseness (and thus the overall surface area that can be touched by water) of the grounds can affect the final flavor. Generally, the more time that the brewing method requires the coffee and water to be in contact with each other, the coarser the grind. For normal "drip" coffee makers as described in Part One above, a medium grind (like you'll find for most pre-ground coffee) is usually fine. If you're using a more exotic brewing method like a french press or an aeropress, consider consulting a coarseness chart like the one available here: http://www.coffeeconfidential.org/grinding/ground-coffee/ . For brewing processes, water should be around 195205F (9196C), or just below boiling. Colder water won't extract enough flavor from the coffee beans, while hotter water can scald the coffee, affecting the taste. If you are boiling your own water for your coffee, allow the water to come to a boil, then remove from the heat source for about 1 minute before pouring it over the grounds. If you keep your coffee grounds in the refrigerator, most brewing processes won't be negatively affected by the cooler beans. However, if you're making espresso, you should allow your beans to reach room temperature before brewing. Because espresso brewing uses a relatively small amount of water that comes in contact with the coffee for a relatively short time, cold beans can actually affect the extraction process.
A: Use freshly ground beans that have been stored properly. Use the correct coarseness for your brewing method. Use the correct temperatures for your ingredients.

Q: The End boss is called the Ender Dragon. She (yes, she was officially confirmed to be female) flies around the End skies. You must kill her to beat the game. Watch out for Endermen, they spawn heavily in this dimension. Saving, exiting, and reloading while in the End, if you have not yet killed the dragon, will cause a second dragon to spawn. Make sure you have enough time to finish the battle. She may take a moment to appear, so take this time to prepare, by sorting your inventory and such. You may spawn underground. If this is the case, just dig your way out. These crystals, located atop the obsidian towers in the End, heal the Ender Dragon. You can destroy them with any attack, including a snowball. Using a close-range weapon is not recommended, since the crystals explode when hit. Some crystals are defended by iron bars. You can damage the dragon using a sword, bow and arrows, or explosive items. The dragon is immune to lava, fire, and splash potions, but potions that buff your stats are very useful. Since trying to sleep in the End or Nether results in an explosion, you can use beds to damage the ender dragon. Just place it in front of you, stand back, and then try to sleep when the dragon comes close. In Computer Edition, the dragon is invulnerable to arrows while it is perched on top of the portal. The Enderdragon drops up to 70 levels of XP, and opens the exit portal. Now you have "beaten Minecraft," you'll spawn in your world's normal spawn after the credits, with all of your gear and a large number of extra experience levels! You can go back to the End whenever you want now, provided you can reach the portal. Several valuable things can be found there, such as the Endermen and their valuable Ender Pearls, and the Obsidian and End Stone blocks, which are some of the most blast-resistant blocks in the game that you can use. The 1.9 update to the Java Edition (known as the Combat Update) added End Cities and End Ships.
A: Get ready to fight the boss. Locate the dragon. Destroy the Ender Crystals. Kill the dragon. Collect the loot. Jump into the exit portal. Beat the Game!

Q: The formula of a line in slope-intercept form is y = mx + b, where m is the slope, b is the y-intercept, and x and y are variables that represent coordinates on the line; generally, you will see them remain as x and y in the equation. In this form, you can easily determine the slope of the line as the variable "m". For example. Rewrite 4y - 12x = 20 and y = 3x -1. The equation 4y - 12x = 20 needs to be rewritten with algebra while y = 3x -1 is already in slope-intercept form and does not need to be rearranged. Oftentimes, the formula of the line you are given will not be in slope-intercept form. It only takes a little math and rearranging of variables to get it into slope-intercept. For example: Rewrite line 4y-12x=20 into slope-intercept form. Add 12x to both sides of the equation: 4y 12x + 12x = 20 + 12x Divide each side by 4 to get y on its own: 4y/4 = 12x/4 +20/4 Slope-intercept form: y = 3x + 5. Remember, when two lines are parallel to each other, they will have the exact same slope. Using the equation y = mx + b where m is the slope of the line, you can identify and compare the slopes of two lines. In our example, the first line has an equation of y = 3x + 5, therefore it's slope is 3. The other line has an equation of y = 3x 1 which also has a slope of 3. Since the slopes are identical, these two lines are parallel. Note that if these equations had the same y-intercept, they would be the same line instead of parallel.
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Define the slope-intercept formula of a line. Rewrite the formula of the line in slope-intercept form. Compare the slopes of each line.