A 2-column table with 4 rows titled Mia's Earnings. Column 1 is labeled number of weeks with entries 1, 2, 3, 4. Column 2 is labeled Amount Earned with entries 30, 40, 60, 80. On a coordinate plane titled Troy's Earnings, the x-axis is labeled Number of Weeks and the y-axis is labeled Amount Earned. The points are (1, 20), (2, 40), (3, 60), and (4, 70). Mia and Troy work on weekends. The table and graph show the amount of money they made over four weeks. After week 1, Mia’s total earnings were Troy’s. After week 3, Troy’s total earnings were Mia’s.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?