Bobpursley:

Question

Which of the following systems have high entropy? Which systems have low entropy?

a. papers scattered randomly across a desk
b. a freshly opened pack of cards
c. a cultivated field of cabbages
d. a room after a party

I sent this to you earlier and I think you missed understood the directions. There is not just one answer choice. For each one, you pick either high or low.

I know. AGain, these have nothing to do with Entropy.
It irritated that your text publisher does not know this, and your teacher has not pointed out to you what entropy is. It is not your fault.

Pretend Entropy is disorder. High entropy is high disorder (pretend). So for instance c is low disorder. and a, b, and d is disorder. Situation b can be argued, if the opened pack does not mean shuffled, then perhaps it is not so disordered.

Again, these situations have little to do with energy unavailable to do work. Such is life.
Here is what your text did not tell you:
<<Some care must be taken about how you define "disorder" if you are going to use it to understand entropy. A more precise way to characterize entropy is to say that it is a measure of the "multiplicity" associated with the state of the objects. If a given state can be accomplished in many more ways, then it is more probable than one which can be accomplished in only a few ways. When "throwing dice", throwing a seven is more probable than a two because you can produce seven in six different ways and there is only one way to produce a two. So seven has a higher multiplicity than a two, and we could say that a seven represents higher "disorder" or higher entropy.