MAT 101 G2 Concepts Of Mathematics

Mark Anderson assignment #3

1.

a.  ”New York State” and (”death penalty” or “capital punishment”) : 37 magazines, 37 journals, 1 book, 166 news,1 multimedia.

b. (“New York State and Death penalty”) or “capital punishment”: 3238 magazines, 4904 journals, 26 books, 13752 news, 244 multimedia

c. “New York State” and “Death penalty” or “capital punishment”: 3238 magazines, 4904 journals, 26 books, 13752 news, and 244 multimedia

d. (”New york state” and “death penalty”) or (”new york state” and “capital punishment”) : 37 magazines, 37 jouirnals, 1 book, 169 news, 1 multimedia

2. a and d because they both mean the same thing, but they are worded differently

3. Diagram D

Mark Anderson 

Assignment #2

1a. Death and penalty- 2900 magazines, 2848 academic journals, 22 books, 14862 news, 294 multimedia

Death penalty- 2900 magazines, 2847 academic journals, 22 books, 14859 news, 294 multimedia

b. the words death and penalty mostly apprear in the text

c. you could type it “death penalty”

2a. 2900 magazines, 2847 academic journals, 22 books, 14859 news, 294 multimedia

b. 2900 magazines, 2847 academic journals, 22 books, 14859 news, 294 multimedia

c. 2879 magazines 2830 academic journals, 21 books, 14776 news, 294 multimedia

d. 65 magazines, 47 academic journals, 2 books, 190 news, 1 multimedia

e. 2994 magazines, 2885 academic journals, 22 books, 15162 news, 296 multimedia

f. 2897 magazines, 2849 academic journals, 21 books, 14872 news, 296 multimedia

g. 1532 magazines, 2129 academic journals, 16 books, 6268 news, 178 media

3. and-not-or are reffered to as boolean signs
when researching two phrases together use and
to research either between two phrases, use or
to look up one phrase, but not a certain sub-topic from the subject use not

1)
a. Death and Penalty - 5448      Death Penalty - 5080
b. Death and Pelalty appear mostly in the text.
c. if you would want the exact phrase to appear you would need to put quotation marks before death and after penalty.

 2)
a. Death and Penalty - 5448
b. Death or Penalty - 259399
c. Death Penalty - 5080
d. Death Penalty and New York State - 363
e. Death Penalty and not New York State - 4681
f. Death Penalty or Capital Punishment - 7375
g. Death Penalty and Capital Punishment - 3122

3.
and - it shows all results with all of the same terms in it
or - it shows all results with at least one term in it
not - it shows all results with no terms in it.
paranthesis are used to break up the terms for more results.

1)

a. new york state and death penalty or capital punishment - 3230 magazines, 4903 journals, 26 books, 13727 news, 244 mulitmedia.

b. new york state and death penalty or capital punishment - 3230 magazines, 4903 journals, 26 books, 13727 news, 244 mulitmedia.

c. new york state and death penalty or capital punishment - 3230 magazines, 4903 journals, 26 books, 13727 news, 244 mulitmedia.

d. new york state and death penalty or new york state and capital punishment - 37 magazines, 37 journals, 1 book, 165 news, 1 mulitmedia.

2) A, B, and C got the best results because they did not have a choice, like in D it has an “or” in the middle but the others did not.

3)Diagram D

1)

a. “new york state and death penalty or new york state and capital punishment” 241 hits

b. “new york state or capital punishment and death penalty or capital punishment” 241 hits

c. “new york state and death penalty or capital punishment” 22,121 hits

d. “new york state and death penalty or new york state and capital punishment” 241 hits

2) statements a, b, and d had the same amount of hits as each other. this could be because they each can be read like a distributive problem. being all distributive statements, they all sound very alike.

3) diagram (D)

Academic Search Premier  data base used

1.

a)5406 results

b) out of the first 20 hits, 5 contained “death penalty” adjacent in the title

c) you use qoutations

2.

a)5406

b) 257332

c) 5041

d) 360

e) 4681

f) 7320

g) 3092

3.

and - each result contains all selected terms

or - each result contains at least one selected term

not - results do not contain specified term

Parenheses are used to “nest” query terms within each other. They are also use to designated an order in which the data base interprets the search.

Using Laws 1-8 on page 53, show

1.  p -> ~r is equivalent to r -> ~p
2. (r \/ ~s ) -> q is equivalent to (~r /\ s) \/ q
3. (~a \/ b) -> ~p is equivalent to p -> (a /\ ~b)
4. ~(p -> q) is equivalent to p /\ ~q
5. (r \/ ~s ) -> q is equivalent to (~r \/ q)  /\ (~r /\ q)
6. (p -> q) -> r is equavlent to ( p /\ ~q) \./ r
7. p -> (q -> r) is equivalent to ~p \/ ( ~q \/ r )
8. ~(~p /\ q) \/ r is equivalent to p \/ (  ~q \/ r )

The first person to make a comment with the solution to only one of the above will receive extra credit.  You can only post one solution.  Remember,  comments are moderated so they will not appear right away.

You now have an assignment to complete.  You can find the assignment by looking on the left hand side of this page under the RSS feed MAT 101 Homework titled .  Clicking on Assignment 1 will take you to the assignment.

You are to go to room B 223 on the second floor.

There are several ways you must answer questions.  Some will require you to  email me articles. Others will require you to hand in paper.  All others will be posted to the blog as a comment.

To submit the assigment / post a comment, look at the top of this post and look for the word No Comments. Click on it and type your answers to all questions.   You should do your assignments on paper before posting!! You should place all your answers in one comment.  Remember, comments are moderated and they will not appear right away.

The class on Friday, 9/28 will meet in the second floor computer lab, room B 223.  To log in to the computer, the username is the first 3 letters of your last name followed by the last four digits of your social security number.  The password is 5 9’s followed by the last four digits of your social security number.

Some notes:

When using Academic Search Premier, click on BASIC Search.  You know you are in the right database if the graphic on the upper left hand corner says Ebsco Host. 

For Infotrac General Onefile, click on BASIC Search and make sure the Keyword radio button is selected.

The library website is http://library.ncc.edu

My email address is glassr@ncc.edu and the email address for Professor Spiegelman is spiegem@ncc.edu

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