THE ABOVE PROBLEM IS GROUNDED IN A NUMBER OF FAULTY MORAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL, AND ONTOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS.

FIRST, BY USING SKYSCRAPERS INSTEAD OF YAODONGS, YURTS, OR OTHER TYPES OF DWELLINGS HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED IN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS WRITTEN BY OLD WHITE MEN TO CONTEXTUALIZE THE COLLEGE STUDENT'S EXPERIENCE OF MATHEMATICS, THE AUTHORS OF THE PROBLEM ARE IMPLICITLY ENDORSING THE OPPRESSIVE REIGN OF THE BOURGEOIS CAPITALISTS AND THEIR TYRANNICAL CONTROL OVER THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION. THE LOGICAL RESULT OF SUCH A PERNICIOUS WORLDVIEW CAN ONLY BE GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR AND THE ANNIHILATION OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. SECOND, THE AUTHORS OF THE PROBLEM HAVE ELECTED TO UTILIZE AS THEIR PROJECTILE OF CHOICE THE TOMATO, AN ONTOLOGICALLY AMBIVALENT ENTITY IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. WHAT THE IMAGE OF SKYSCRAPER DID FOR CAPITALISTIC OPPRESSION THE IMAGE OF THE TOMATO DOES FOR POLITICAL PASSIVITY. IF WE CANNOT EVEN DECIDE WHETHER TO VOTE FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE OR THE NEGATIVE BUT INSTEAD LAPSE INTO A MIASMIC HAZE WHEREIN WE COUGH OUT A VOTE THAT SOUNDS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE BOTH, WE HAVE FAILED OURSELVES, BOTH AS FUTURE POLICY MAKERS AND AS HUMAN BEINGS. FINALLY AND MOST EGREGIOUSLY, THE AUTHORS HAVE, BY PLACING THIS PROBLEM IN THE CONTEXT OF A MATH COURSE AT A UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IMPLIED THAT A NEWTONIAN CONCEPTION OF CALCULUS AND BY EXTENSION, THE ENTIRE WESTERN CULTURAL TRADITION AND ALL THE BLOODY, REPRESSIVE, EXPLOITATIVE, NIHILISTIC, AND HEDONISTIC BAGGAGE THAT COMES ALONG WITH IT IS NOT ONLY SUFFICIENT BUT ALSO NECESSARY FOR A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD AROUND US. THIS KIND OF INTELLECTUAL POSTURING IS NOT ONLY DISGUSTINGLY PHILISTINE BUT ALSO MORALLY REPUGNANT. IT IS FOR THESE REASONS THAT THE STUDENT SHOULD REFUSE TO PROVIDE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS A AND B, REGARDLESS OF SAID QUESTIONS COLLECTIVE ABILITY TO EVALUATE SAID STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF KEY MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS THAT WILL ACTUALLY BE PRACTICALLY APPLIED OUTSIDE OF THE ACADEMY.