The table shows the specific heat of four substances—brick, dry soil, paper, and water. if all four substances were exposed to sunlight for the same amount of time, which substance would heat up the fastest? brick 0.9 dry soil 1.26 paper 1.336 water 4.18

Brick.

Explanation:

The formula for the amount of heat absorbed by an object is

q = mCΔT

You want to know how much ΔT changes for each object.

If each object has the same mass and absorbs the same amount of heat, then

The object with the smallest specific heat capacity should have the greatest temperature increase.

Brick will have the greatest temperature increase (we can't say how fast the objects will heat up, because that depends on thermal conductivity: how quickly the heat is carried to the interior of the object).  

the answer to this question is 3.