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You are designing a system for a real-time application in which specific deadlines must be met. Finishing the computation faster gains nothing. You find that your system can execute the necessary code, in the worst case, twice as fast as necessary.      2. How much energy do you save if you set the voltage and frequency to be half as much?

Consider two processors, A and B, with identical clock speeds but different instruction sets. Processor A has simpler instructions that require fewer clock cycles per instruction on average, while Processor B has more complex instructions that require more clock cycles per instruction. Which processor will generally have a lower overall CPU execution time for a given program, assuming the program is optimized for each processor’s instruction set? 

Esteban, a manager, performs a financial analysis of several investment alternatives in order to determine which alternative is most likely to impact the organization’s profitability. Esteban is focusing on: 

Extra credit (up to 5 points possible): Give an example of a fictional character who is a linguist. In your opinion, does their character accurately represent what linguists do? Why or why not?

Which of the following drugs is not used for Alzheimer’s disease?

Stimulants used to treat attention-deficit disorders, such as amphetamine salts, are classified as _____ controlled substances.

Explain the empirical rule in statistics.  Use at least three sentences

Two events are considered mutually exclusive if the two events can’t happen at the same time

Which of the following is a cache replacement policy? 

Which of the following are cache optimization techniques?