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1Several factors influence the justice system’s treatment of criminals. 2 (1)______________________, the sex of offenders affects the severity of sentences. 3 A woman is less likely to receive the death penalty than a man. 4 (2)_______________________, the court is more reluctant to send a mother to prison than a father. 5 (3)______________________ factor in the treatment of offenders is their race.  6Nonwhites are awarded parole and probation less often.  7 (4)____________________, blacks are executed more often for capital crimes. 8 Finally, the age of offenders is considered in sentencing. 9 Young offenders are given special treatment. 10And the elderly are given more lenient sentences.

The rapid growth of industry in the United States resulted in a series of events that led to the Great Depression.  Because of the success of industry, much of the country’s wealth ended up in the hands of a few.  As a result, the average American did not have enough money to buy all the products that were being manufactured. The lack of consumers caused companies to produce less.  Needing fewer workers, they let old employees go and were unable to hire new ones.  Workers therefore had less and less money, causing industry to collapse even more.  As industries shut their plants and workers lost their jobs, banks across the country failed. In 1930, the firstfull year of the depression, 1,300 banks closed their doors.  During the next two years, another 3,700 closed.   The main organizational pattern of the paragraph is: 

If you can’t get rid of a cold, the flu, or a nagging sore throat, the reason may be your toothbrush.  Studies at the University of Oklahoma Dental School have shown thatyour old toothbrush may carry the germs that are causing your illness.  The studies have found that people who change their toothbrushes about every two weeks recover from common winter ills faster than people who use their toothbrushes for a month or more.  Old toothbrushes can culture the germs that can cause colds, influenza, pneumonia, strep throat, diarrhea, and sinus disease.  Another study found that disease germs can live in an unused toothbrush for as long as a week.  They can start to thrive again every time you brush your teeth.

The wealthy of ancient Egypt lived in splendid villas that opened onto fragrant gardens and shady groves.  Their meals included many kinds of meat, poultry, cakes, fruit, wine, and sweets. They ate from vessels of alabaster, gold, and silver, and adorned themselves with costly jewels.  However, the life of the poor was wretched.  Laborers in towns lived in mudbrick hovels whose only furnishings were stools, boxes, and a few crude pottery jars.  A surviving verse from the Middle Kingdom tells of the“weaver in the workshop, with knees against his chest,” who “cannot breathe air,” and who is “beaten fifty strokes” if he does not keep up with his work. The main organizational pattern of the paragraph is: 

Projection is an unconscious process of seeing one’s own shortcomings in others.  For example, a greedy shop owner may cheat many of his customers, yet consider himself a pillar of the community and a good Christian. How does he justify to himself his greed and dishonesty? He believes that everyone who enters his store is bent on cheating him any way he or she can. In reality, few, if any, of his customers share his motives, but he projects his own greed and dishonesty onto them. The main organizational pattern of the paragraph is: 

Write a function pattern(h), where h is the parameter that defines the height of the following pattern.  Note: You do not need to return anything from the function, just have it print directly.  pattern(5):123452345345455 pattern(3):123233 pattern(9):123456789234567893456789456789567896789789899

What will be the output of the following code snippet?  def smaller(a, b):    return a if a < b else badd = lambda x, y: x + yp = 6q = 9r = smaller(p, q)result = add(r, q)print(result)

The function sum_of_factorials takes one parameter: n (integer). It should return the sum of factorials from 1! up to n!. For example: sum_of_factorials(4) should return1! + 2! + 3! + 4! = 33. However, the function contains multiple logic and syntax errors. Identify and correct the errors in the code snippet so the function works as intended. You cannot change entire chunks of code nor rewrite it completely. Mention the line number where the error is, what the error is, and the correction. 1. def sum_of_factorials(n):2.   total = 03.   fact = 04.   for i in range(1, n):5.     fact = fact * i6.     total += fact7.   return totals

Write a function, nine, that takes a single positive int as an argument. The function will print out a series of numbers as defined: The first number is the argument to the function When the number is 9, the series ends If the number is a single digit, the next number is three times the current number Otherwise, the next number is the sum of the digits in the current number   Example nine(9)9nine(13450987)13450987 37 10 1 3 9nine(59)59 14 5 15 6 18 9

What will be the output of the following code snippet? import mathx = 5x += 2y = x – 3y *= 2z = math.sqrt(y)z += 1result = math.floor(z) + math.ceil(y / 2)print(result)