is backed up on an alternative machine with the hope that the backup one can finish faster. Google simply backs up the last few running map or reduce tasks and has observed that speculative execution can decrease the job execution time by 44 percent [1]. Due to the significant performance gains‚ speculative execution is also implemented in Hadoop [2] and Microsoft Dryad [3] to deal with the straggler
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currently registered in your state. The mean is 24 mpg‚ with a standard deviation of 6 mpg. -3σ - 2σ -1σ μ 1σ 2σ 3σ 1. Sketch the Normal model (label). 68% 95% 99.7 % 2. What percent of cars get less than 15 mpg? 15 24 z 1.5 P(y<15)=P(z<-1.5)=6.7% 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 6 3. What percent of cars get between 20 and 30 mpg? 20 24 30 24 P(20<y<30)=P(-0.67<z<1)=58.8% z .67 z 1 6 6 4. What percent of cars get more than 40 mpg? 40 24 z 2.67 P(y>40)=P(z>2.67)=0.4% 6 5. What gas mileage
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SOLUTIONS TO HOMEWORK 1 1.2. a. The ten elements are the ten cars b. 5 variables: Size‚ Cylinders‚ City MPG‚ Highway MPG‚ and Fuel c. Categorical variables: Size and Fuel Quantitative variables: Cylinders‚ City MPG‚ and Highway MPG 1.3. a. Average mpg for city driving = 182/10 = 18.2 mpg b. Average mpg for highway driving = 261/10 = 26.1 mpg On average‚ the miles per gallon for highway driving is 26.1 – 18.2 = 7.9 mpg greater compared to city driving. 2.47. a. (Other possible stem-and-leafs
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In the crucible‚ Mary Warren is who I think changed from the beginning of the play to the end of the play. She was a follower of Abigail at the beginning and is told to lie about people being Witches‚ and at the end she is a coward. Mary knows it is wrong but she does it anyways because Abigail threatened her. When court came around‚ Mary told the truth. She was nervous about confessing because Abigail was going to be there. When she admitted that she had lied about the the witchcraft but‚ the
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Hurry Date‚ a small & privately owned company‚ is one of the America’s leading provider of speed dating with a strong brand recognition. It’s an online version of traditional round-robin speed dating. It operates a website HurryDate.com to screen singles looking to mingle. The range of service it provides are‚ online match-making‚ personal browsing and event hosting. It does this by hosting round-robin meeting event for potentials dating candidates. This is where they make money by charging
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1. Using the Simple Sheet‚ what happens when Allegro cuts advertising and selling effort to 0$ and raises price to $500/unit? Comment. When we change those three variables‚ the excel gives us the net profit result in $20‚387‚345‚ which is already over 20 million dollars. The market is not changed. However‚ in the real world‚ the market share is definitely affected by any decision you made to the market‚ such as advertising expense and price. This unrealistic net profit is made underlying the assumption
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Overview In the first years of e-commerce‚ it was generally accepted that customer loyalty and online shopping were mutually exclusive. The Web seemed to make customer loyalty irrelevant; at the click of a mouse‚ shoppers could effortlessly cover the globe in search of the lowest price‚ with little to hold them at one site. Yet‚ while it’s true that online shoppers can skip easily from one site to the next‚ a highly loyal segment of online shoppers has emerged nonetheless‚ and tools such as Internet
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eMarketing: The essential Guide to Online Marketing‚ v.1.0. Chapter 6: Search Engine Optimization. Retrieved from http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/ Bookhub/reader/19?e=fwk-105454-ch18#fwk-105454-ch06 Dawar‚ N. (2013). Harvard Business Review: When Marketing Is Strategy. Retrieved from http://hbr.org/2013/12/when-marketing-is-strategy/ar/1
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COPYRIGHT MATERIAL M-Tel Call Centre data: What does it tell us? In May 2009‚ Esther Ching is three months into her role as manager of the complaints section of a call centre‚ located in India. The call centre is owned and run by M-Tel‚ a Malaysian telco company. Her section handles all billing complaints and service difficulties. The main products are landlines‚ mobile telephones and internet access. She is required to present a report about the performance of her section‚ as part of the regular
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Methods – Course Handout MBA – Semester II – Class of 2014 Faculty: Vishal Mishra Qualifications: PhD (Strategic Management)‚ M.M.S (Systems/Marketing) Contact Details: Room No. – E 213; Ph – 9948494348 (Mob.); Email: vmishra@ibsindia.org Meeting Hours: All (working) week-days - with prior appointment 1. Instruction Details Course Duration: 33 sessions of 75 minutes each‚ 2. Course Details A. Course Objective: To provide basic concepts of research methods that can help
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