Green/ Blue common
Length: 24–32 ft
Shoulder height: 9–11 ft
Wingspan: 45–60 ft
Weight: 5,000–8,000 lbs
Bronze-wing/ Noble large
Length: 38–45 ft
Shoulder height: 13–15 ft
Wingspan: 75–90 ft
Weight: 12,000–18,000 lbs
Silver-wing/ Noble large
Length: 45–55 ft
Shoulder height: 15–18 ft
Wingspan: 90–110 ft
Weight: 18,000–28,000 lbs
Gold-wing/ Noble extra-large
Length: 55–65 ft
Shoulder height: 18–22 ft
Wingspan: 110–130 ft
Weight: 30,000–45,000 lbs
I read it through carefully—it wasn’t that hard really, I realized—it just involved a bit of math. I showed all my work, scratching away with the ink pencil until I came to the right answer—the quartermaster needed 5,262.5 pounds of additional meat to feed all the dragons.
Satisfied with my math, I went on, feeling confident again. But near the end of the test, things got a bit trickier.
Problem 95 read:
During an evacuation, you have time to save either:
two Bronze-wings,
one Silver-wing,
or one Gold-wing.
Explain why the correct answer cannot be determined by size or weight alone.
The expected answer is NOT mathematical.
I frowned as I chewed on the end of my ink pencil. Was this an ethics question? It certainly seemed to be. Math was easy—this kind of knotty philosophical problem was more troubling because it was less straightforward.
