document.write( "Question 96761: Consider the following variables where one is the final exam score for a student on the departmental final exam and the other is his/her semester grade. Which of the following statements best describes their relationship to each other? In each case, explain why you exclude or include the choice.\r
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document.write( "Consider the following variables where one is the final exam\r\n" );
document.write( "score for a student on the departmental final exam and the \r\n" );
document.write( "other is his/her semester grade. Which of the following \r\n" );
document.write( "statements best describes their relationship to each other? \r\n" );
document.write( "In each case, explain why you exclude or include the choice. \r\n" );
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document.write( "If y is a function x, then a corresponding value of y can \r\n" );
document.write( "always be determined just by knowing a a value of x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "-An individual's final exam score is a function of his or \r\n" );
document.write( "her semester grade.\r\n" );
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document.write( "False.  You certainly cannot determine what a student's \r\n" );
document.write( "final exam grade is just by knowing the semester grade. \r\n" );
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document.write( "-An individual's semester grade as a function of his/her \r\n" );
document.write( "final exam score.\r\n" );
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document.write( "False.  You cannot determine what a student's semester grade \r\n" );
document.write( "is just by knowing the final exam score. (You would also \r\n" );
document.write( "have to know the grades on other tests, quizzes, projects, \r\n" );
document.write( "and homework.) \r\n" );
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document.write( "-Each is a function of the other.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Certainly not.\r\n" );
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document.write( "-Neither is a function of the other.\r\n" );
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document.write( "This is the only true statement of the four in normal cases.\r\n" );
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document.write( "[The first three would be true and the last one false \r\n" );
document.write( "if and only if the only grade a student receives for the \r\n" );
document.write( "semester is the grade made on the final exam.  Incidentally \r\n" );
document.write( "I took a graduate course once where this was the case!!]\r\n" );
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