Plane weight versus load Plane A Plane B Plane C Plane weight 22 grams 44 grams 66 grams Maximum load 10 grams 40 grams 50 grams Mrs. Smith has assigned her science class a project. She wants them to build a small model airplane out of balsa wood, designed to deliver a small package. Because of the amount of fuel it takes to fly a plane, a plane that is light, but can still carry a large load, is the ideal solution. The class constructed several model planes of varying sizes, and tested them to see which could carry the most weight. You can see the results of their experiment in this table. If the class had to deliver a 45 gram package in one trip, would they be able to? A) Yes, with plane A B) Yes, with plane B C) Yes, with plane C D) No, no plane can carry that much.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?