Berkeley College-Spring-2013 MATH 210- Finite Math-Prof. Seaton Name: February 11‚ 2013 PRACTICE PROBLEMS FOR MIDTERM EXAM-ANSWERS 1) The total cost to produce 10 calculators is $100. The variable cost per calculator is $4. (a) Find the fixed cost 10 4 4 10 40 60 100 (b) What is the cost function? 4 60 2) An insurance company claims that its monthly revenue in dollars is given by R(x) = 125x and its monthly cost is:
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they were selected.3 This representative portion of a population is called a sample.4 Donald Ary‚ Lucy Cheser Jacobs‚ and Asghar Razavieh‚ Introduction to Research in Education‚ (New York: Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston‚ Inc.‚ 1972)‚ 160 2 Ibid.‚ p. 125 3 L. R. Gay‚ Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application‚ 3rd ed.‚ (Columbus‚ Ohio: Merrill Publishing Company‚ 1987)‚ 101. 4 Ary
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Problem #3 In the case‚ we learned that adverse weather conditions are primary cause of delays at Logan Airport. When weather conditions deteriorate‚ or when winds from the northwest become moderately strong‚ Logan’s capacity drops from three runways (where one runway handles both arrivals and departures‚ one runway only departures‚ and one runway only arrivals) to two (where two runways handle both arrivals and departures.) Arrival capacity in the former case averages around 60 planes an hour
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Case 1: The Battle for Logan Airport: American Airlines vs. JetBlue 1. Who are the major competitors in this industry? Where do they compete (right before this case was written) in terms of their primary markets? Are their resources different from each other? Why or why not? What are their strengths and weaknesses? The major competitors in the industry have to be divided into three categories depending on the segment in the air carrier market. The first category is the major carriers such
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Courts generally have held the law to be constitutional on its face as an appropriate exercise of authority to protect national security‚ though historically it has been subject to abuse if applied broadly to otherwise protected activities‚ such as the right to free speech‚ rendering it a particularly dangerous tool by which government authorities may silence speech that they consider to be contrary to government interests. Parts of the Patriot Act explicitly allow determinations to be made based
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Brendan Dassey and Daryl Atkins: Forensic Psychologists in Law The cases of Brendan Dassey and Daryl Atkins demonstrate the roles of forensic psychologists in law. Notably‚ the case of Brendan Dassey illustrates how a teen who had an intellectual disability was coerced into a confession (Nirider‚ Tepfer‚ & Drizin‚ 2012). Moreover‚ the case of Daryl Atkins exhibits an individual who was mentally disabled and sentenced to death. Both these cases demonstrate some of the roles that forensic psychologists
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acronym SPACESHIP helps people remember the exceptions to the Fourth Amendment. Search incident to arrest Plain View Automobile Consent Emergency or exigency Stop and frisk Hot and pursuit Inventory S(P)ecial circumstances The first letter of the acronym is S which stands for search incident to lawful to arrest. This means once someone has been arrested they have to be searched. The police have the right to get involve if they suspect someone has something to do with illegal activity
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Why is it important to use systems analysis and design methodologies when building a system? Why not just build the system in whatever way seems to be “quick and easy”? What value is provided by using an “engineering” approach? Also‚ Give a specific example of an organization (not one listed in the book) that does a good job of this and why. It is important to use systems analysis and design methodologies when building a system to ensure that the correct software is chosen. It also analyzes what
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Contents We have seen an example of use of finite automata in describing the operation of a simplified version of vending machine. Many other systems operating in practice can also be modeled by finite automata such as control circuits of computers‚ computer network communication protocols‚ lexical analysers for compilers etc. Many of those systems fall into the class of systems called reactive system. A reactive system is a system that changes its actions‚ outputs and conditions/status in response
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women and the equality of gender. Each essay has different perspectives on the issue of women`s right being equal to men. In this essay‚ we will compare the differences among the perspectives and determine which perspective is most effective. The first essay that we will discuss is “Malala‚ the Muslim Feminist” by Rafia Zakaria. Zakaria is a columnist for DAWN‚ Pakistan ’s largest English newspaper and one of the few feminist columnists in Pakistan. Zakaria`s perspective is to prove that gender equality
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