In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech with the words "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
a. Using the dates given, write and solve an equation that will calculate the number of years in a score.
The number of years in a score would be .
b. How many score would represent 60 years?
score would represent 60 years