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KimWrice

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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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nanny

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c




KimWrice

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Gracias!


kusterl

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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