Cesar Chavez Academy High School Computer Science class

Room 202
Instructor: Guillermo Moreno

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1. What is the meaning of the word "Impervious"?
You can use a dictionary from the classroom or you can check in any of the search engines like google or you can visit my web site at: http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

2. What is the name of the civilizacion that take place in Machu-Picchu?, What is the name of the intrusive rock where the structures of the temples are made from?,  Who discovered the ruins in 1911?.
In order to answer these questions, you can visit  the following sites:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/cultures/inca.html
http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/peru/machu_picchu.html
http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

3. What is a tsunami?, What does "tsunami" mean?,  What could be the origen of a tsunami? Can you express your feelings and experience about the latest tsunami in Indonesia?
You can read information about tsunami in the following web sites.
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

4. Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?, When and where did he born?, What did he do for the civil rights? Who was Claude Harris, and Thelma Dewitty?
Please check your answers with the information in the following sites.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/
http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

5. How many different license plates are available in the state of Michigan if each plate contains a sequence of three alphabetical letters followed by three decimal numbers? We know that the English alphabet contains 26 letters and the decimal system contains 10 digits. What do you think is the solution?
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6. Hamilton Circuit. How do you connect all the vertices of the following dodecahedron without passing twice the same verticex or path?
dodecahedron

7. The next example shows how the population of rabbits on an island can be modeled using a recurrence relation.
Rabbits and the Fibonacci Numbers. Consider the following problem, which was originally posed by Leonardo di Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, in the thirteenth century. A young pair of rabbits (one of each sex) is placed on an island. A pair of rabbits does not breed until they are 2 months old. After they are 2 months old, each pair of rabbits produces another pair each month. Find a recurrence relation for the number of pairs of rabbits on the island after n months, assuming that no rabbits ever die.
Please check your answer at:http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

8. A total of 1232 students have taken a course in Spanish, 879 have taken a course in French, and 114 have taken a course in Russian. Further, 103 have taken courses in both Spanish and French, 23 have taken courses in both Spanish and Russian, and 14 have taken courses in both French and Russian. If 2092 students have taken at least one of Spanish, French, and Russian, how many students have taken a course in all three languages?
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9. What is the meaning of the word "evince"?
You can use a dictionary from the classroom or you can check in any of the search engines like google or you can visit my web site at: http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

10. Suppose that there are 1807 freshmen at your school. Of these, 453 are taking a course in computer science, 567 are taking a course in mathematics, and 299 are taking courses in both computer science and mathematics. How many are not taking a course in either computer science or in mathematics?
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11. What is the meaning of the word "voluble"?
You can use a dictionary from the classroom or you can check in any of the search engines like google or you can visit my web site at: http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

12. The problem of traveling across every bridge without crossing any bridge more than once can be rephrased  in terms of this model. The question becomes: Is there a simple circuit in this multigraph that contains every edge?

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13. Is Pluto still the 9th planet of our Solar System?
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14. What is the meaning of the word "asseverate"?
You can use a dictionary from the classroom or you can check in any of the search engines like google or you can visit my web site at: http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

15. An urn contains 4 blue balls and 5 read balls. What is the probability that a ball chosen from the urn is blue?
Please check your answer at:http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

16. What is the meaning of the word "Coquette"?
You can use a dictionary from the classroom or you can check in any of the search engines like google or you can visit my web site at: http://people.emich.edu/gmoreno/homeroom/homeroomansw.html

17. What would be the sum of the following matrix?

| 1  0  -1  |    | 3  4  -1 |   
| 2  2  -3 | + | 1 -3   0 | =  ?
| 3  4   0 |    |-1  1   2 |  
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18. What makes a person physically or verbally hostile?
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