The title of this short story, "The Cold Equations," refers to <span>the </span>cold, factual mathematical equations<span> that were used to </span>calculate Marilyn's fate<span>.
Marylin was just a young girl who boarded the ship to go to a distant planet to visit her brother whom she hasn't seen for 10 years. However, her stowing away on the cruiser creates grave dangers as the ship's computer can only calculate the amount of fuel necessary to transport the ship, the pilot, and cargo, and there is no place for Marylin. Thus, it was the computer, a mere calculation, not the human who decided her fate, and she was ejected into space to die there.</span>
Answer:
I will use (b) because I think it is soutiable
The passage used a combination of comparison and contrast and: <span> C. cause and effect.
</span>The passage give us a well descriptive explanation on how the microorganisms (the cause) developed in such a way to the point where their fossils ended up as a petroleum/coal (effect)
<span>The answer would be
B.He probably feels that cities are too crowded.</span>
