Each Year, Ms

Multiple Choice

Each year, Ms. Fay, a fifth-grade science teacher, presents a prize of $25 to the best group science project entered in the school science fair. The students who received the prize this year included two who invested little in the project, two who were involved to a medium degree, and one child, Beth, who did most of the work. According to the text, how will the group distribute the $25?

A) The students will each try to take the largest amount of earnings for themselves, regardless of the amount of work they contributed to the project.
B) Each student will receive $5.
C) Beth will receive the largest chunk of the $25, while the two children who did the least amount of work will receive much smaller amounts.
D) The girls will allow the boys to take larger amounts of money than they deserve when one considers the amount of work they contributed to the project.