Problem: Two six graders learned about the lives of animals. Lori learned more about fish, while Dan learned more about mammals. Which student learned more about tiny, sac-like structures?

A: Dan

Problem: Mark was attending the music festival in his city. First, he went to stage one, where the music was playing in high decibel. Then he went to stage two. There the music was playing in low decibel. He kind of liked the latter one. In which stage Mark would less likely risk loss of hearing, stage one or stage two?

A: stage two

Problem: A team of biologists has been monitoring the deer population in the state of Wisconsin. They use past data and current conditions to predict if the population will grow quickly or slowly and recommend how many hunting licenses the state should issue during hunting season to keep the population stable. If the deer birth rates went down this year when compared to last year does that mean that resource availability went up or down?

A: down

Problem: John landed a job as an IT manager. His boss asked him to figure out problems in two similar programs, program A and program B. John found program A having parallel slowdown, but program B does not have parallel slowdown. He has to weigh the merits of using these programs. Which program is doing more useful processing, program A or program B?

A:
program B