Alegislative committee is weighing the pros and cons of a clean-air program. if it spends $1 million on the program, the air will be cleaner by 20 percent. if it spends $2 million, the air will be cleaner by 30 percent. if it spends $3 million, the air will be cleaner by 35 percent. after comparing opportunity costs and benefits at the margin, the committee agrees to fund the program with $2 million. why did it not choose to appropriate $3 million?
a. at $3 million, the air is not improved as much as the committee would like.
b. at $3 million, the costs are no longer worth the benefits.
c. it was too much to spend without a guarantee.
d. the air is improved by the same amount whether $2 million or $3 million is spent.

right angles are formed by perpendicular lines. if the lines would extend, to make two intersecting lines, they would form four right angles.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)