Consider the following problem and then choose which of the statements below is NOT true. If each of 10 people at a meeting shakes hands (once) with every other person, how many handshakes are exchanged?
a. The descriptive model might be Ten people shaking hands with nine folks each a couple fewer because you want to avoid repetitions . . . say something like maybe sixty to seventy?
b. The normative method will yield the correct answer: in this case, N x ((N-1)/2).
c. A heuristic approach is not necessarily systematic or orderly, instead relying on educated guessing.
d. The algorithmic approach will differ substantially from the normative model of what is right; that is, it is particularly prone to distortions, inaccuracies, and omissions.
Question 2
A heuristic is to __________ as an algorithm is to __________.
a. correct; incorrect
b. incorrect; correct
c. likelihood; certainty
d. certainty; likelihood
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