What is an algorithm? - Problem Solving Review Assignment - Use this assignment in your class!

Problem Solving Review Assignment

1.Provide several examples of how people give off data online.

2.What type of data could you collect in your everyday life?

3.Consider the handshaking problem: You are in a room with 20 people (including yourself) and must shake every person's hand, and determine how many total handshakes you engage in. What is the known data in this problem? What is the unknown data in this problem?

4.What is an algorithm?

5.Give an example of when you may use an algorithm in everyday life.

6.What are the four steps of the problem solving process?

7.Imagine you want to break a candy bar into 8 equal pieces. Approach this problem using the four-step problem solving process. Outline what you would do in each step.

8.How can you represent the number 8 in the binary number system?

9.Explain the binary number system.

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Alec KretchAUG 15, 2021, 5:16:43 PM

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