Question

The author most likely chose to call this story “The Cold Equations” because he

believes that space is a freezing wasteland
wants to indicate that the EDS is cold
needs to communicate that math is boring
tries to foreshadow that numbers are heartless

My Answer is D! Can someone check me?

Answer 1

@Summer98 ?

Answer 2

@goalieboy

Answer 3

what do you think it is

Answer 4

D

Answer 5

I'm not sure though

Answer 6

I read Cold Equations for my English 10 class
the answer is D

Answer 7

THANKS SOOOOOO MUCHHHH

Answer 8

Wait are you positive?

Answer 9

yep :)

Answer 10

no it is B because here is the explanation


"The story takes place entirely aboard an Emergency Dispatch Ship (EDS) headed for the frontier planet Woden with a load of desperately needed medical supplies. The pilot, Barton, discovers a stowaway: an eighteen-year-old girl. By law, all EDS stowaways are to be jettisoned because EDS vessels carry no more fuel than is absolutely necessary to land safely at their destination. The girl, Marilyn, merely wants to see her brother, Gerry, and was not aware of the law. When boarding the EDS, Marilyn saw the "UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL KEEP OUT!" sign, but thought she would at most have to pay a fine if she were caught. Barton explains that her presence dooms the mission by exceeding the weight limit, and the subsequent crash would kill both of them and doom the colonists awaiting the medical supplies. After contacting her brother for the last moments of her life, Marilyn willingly walks into the airlock and is ejected into space."

Answer 11

now I don't know

Answer 12

why would he want to indicate that it is cold? that is kind of irrelevant

Answer 13

that is a direct quote from the book, I just took a quiz on this stuff because I just got done reading the book

Answer 14

and it was correct? You had this exact same question?

Answer 15

hello?

Answer 16

yes it was correct

Answer 17

ok thanks:) I'll let you know if it was correct or not

Answer 18

ok I am sorry if it is not

Answer 19

It was incorrect

Answer 20

what was the correct answer?

Answer 21

I don't know I got the same question again and I'm going to go with my gut answer which is D but I'm stuck on a question :/

Answer 22

what is that question

Answer 23

Identify the main idea of this paragraph:

It was a law not of men's choosing but made imperative by the circumstances of the space frontier. Galactic expansion had followed the development of the hyperspace drive and as men scattered wide across the frontier there had come the problem of contact with the isolated first-colonies and exploration parties. The huge hyperspace cruisers were the product of the combined genius and effort of Earth and were long and expensive in the building. They were not available in such numbers that small colonies could possess them. The cruisers carried the colonists to their new worlds and made periodic visits, running on tight schedules, but they could not stop and turn aside to visit colonies scheduled to be visited at another time; such a delay would destroy their schedule and produce a confusion and uncertainty that would wreck the complex interdependence between old Earth and the new worlds of the frontier.

Expansion among the galaxies spread people far away.
Space cruisers had to stay on a tight schedule.
People of Earth created the hyperspace cruisers.
In space, there were many colonized areas, some big, some small.

Answer 24

Its not A btw

Answer 25

what do you think it is

Answer 26

I personally think it is D but again I'm not sure.

Answer 27

I also think D on this one

Answer 28

I hope so, cuz this is my last shot at this exam and I've gotten 80s on all my other shots.

Answer 29

oh ok

Answer 30

are you homeschooled?

Answer 31

Yeah and It was wrong, but I got a 90% which I can live with

Answer 32

Nice I am homeschooled as well

Answer 33

flvs?

Answer 34

no but I help a lot with them, I help someone else in that school

Answer 35

so then how do you get your education?