A group of five friends are long distance runners who will be running in an upcoming marathon. To prepare for the marathon, each of the friends recorded the number of miles they ran each week for 12 weeks. The results of the friends'
training are shown in the data set provided below. Which of the friends was the most consistent with the number of miles
run each week during the training? Hint: You should not need to compute the standard deviation for each friend.
Noah
Ashton
24
Jordan
22
Kyle
15
26
13
Caleb
35
36
34
35
34
39
29
26
24
18
25
31
41
25
31
19
38
27
15
33
37
35
34
37
24
19
27
40
25
27
29
36
27
26
32
15
36
35
21
32
16
33
42
24
17
18
36
33
21
28
26
35
35
27
21
Select the

probably a 9

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.”