answer, will mark brainiest

thornton's doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle. he called hans and pete to him. their sacks were slim, and with his own the three partners could rake together only two hundred dollars. in the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid it unhesitatingly against matthewson's six hundred.

what do the slim sacks represent?

1 the unlikeliness of buck being able to do the task

2 the disrespect that the onlookers have for thornton

3 the ridiculousness of the wager made by matthewson

4 the inability matthewson has to get people to wager

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

The basketball crashed against the backboard, and point guard sheena lunged for it. as she snatched the ball out of mid-air, the crowd cheered, chanting encouragement for her team, the monarchs. so far, the game had been a disaster. with 15 seconds left to go in the final quarter, the monarchs were 2 points shy of victory. what main idea do the details in the passage suggest? the point guard sheena was not a very good player. the monarchs had never lost a basketball game. the monarchs were worried about losing. the crowd was not supporting the monarchs.

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?