Q. Scenario: You are a member of a space crew originally scheduled to rendezvous with another ship on the lighted surface of the moon. However, due to mechanical difficulties. your ship was forced to land at a spot some 200 miles from the rendezvous point.

During reentry and landing. much of the equipment aboard was damaged and since survival depends on reaching the mother ship.

the most critical items available must be chosen for the 200-mile trip. Below listed the 15 items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank order them in terms of their importance for your crew in allowing them to reach the rendezvous point.

Place the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important, and so on through number 15 for the least important.

Your ranking:

___Box of matches

___ Food concentrate

___50 feet of nylon rope

___Parachute silk

___Portable heating unit

___Two .45 caliber pistols

___one case of dehydrated milk

___Two 100 lb. tanks of oxygen

___Stellar map

___Self-inflating life raft

___Magnetic compass

___ 20 liters of water

___Signal flares