A newspaper collected information on schools in its circulation area in order to compare their quality. Two measures the newspaper collected for each school, mean class size and mean score on a statewide reading exam, are shown in the scatterplot. One school in the report, springside elementary, is labeled in the graph. A graph titled comparing schools has mean class size (students) on the x-axis, and mean state test score on the y-axis. Points decrease in a line with negative slope. A point for springside is outside of the line. Which is a true statement regarding springside? springside does not affect the correlation. Springside weakens the correlation shown in the scatterplot. Springside strengthens the correlation shown in the scatterplot. Removing springside would increase the value of the correlation coefficient.

answer:

well i am certain this question isn't for serious matters.

explanation:

answer: compare a myth legend, or classic work of literature of you choice to a modern work that reinterprets it.focus on the similarities in theme between the newer work and the original, and provide examples that illustrate these themes from both works. the modern work may be any novel, movie, play, short story, or other storytelling medium with which you’re familiars long as it is clearly inspired by a myth, legend, or classic work of literature.

short-response prompt  

read the following excerpt from “fish cheeks” by amy tannin which tan recounts a christmas eve dinner.  

i fell in love with the minister’s son the winter i turned fourteen. he was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger. for christmas i prayed for this blond-haired boy, robert, and a slim new american nose.  

on christmas eve i saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. she was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. the kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: a slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. a howl soaking dried fungus back to life. a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.  

after everyone had gone, my mother said to me. “you want to be the same as american girls on the outside.” she handed me an early gift. it was a miniskirt in beige tweed. “but in side you must always be chinese. you must be proud you are different. your only shame is to have shame.”

answer: 1

explanation: 1