List Five Strategies You Might Use to Solve a Complicated

question 29

Essay

List five strategies you might use to solve a complicated problem (for example, how to prioritize paying bills that total more than the amount in your checking account, how to solve a complicated algebra problem, or how to synthesize all the material you have researched for an end-of-term paper). Then provide a brief example of how you would apply one of them to a problem you recently confronted.

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Definitions:

Expenditures

Money spent by an individual or organization for goods or services.

Mean Amount

The average value of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the numbers together and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Meals

Food and drink items prepared for consumption, usually at specific times during the day such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Nominal Variables

Variables that represent categories without any inherent numerical order or value.