Case Based Critical Thinking Questions

question 8

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Case Based Critical Thinking Questions
Carlos has developed a database for his organic farm.The farm sells organic produce and meat. In addition to the retail sales of his products, he offers cooking demonstrations five times each month for a small fee. The demonstrations are limited to 10 people. The database contains the following tables: Products, ProductPrices, ProductCosts, Suppliers, Customers, and CookingDemos. The Products, Product Prices, Product Costs and Suppliers tables are related using the ProductID field. The Customers and CookingDemos tables are related on the CustomerID field. Carlos needs to make some decisions using his database. Determine the best method for Carlos to use to achieve the results he wants.
-Carlos needs to decide which cooking demonstrations to offer next month. He would like to offer his five most popular demonstrations. Which method would be best for Carlos to use to find this information from his database?

• A)use a calculated field in the CookingDemo table to calculate how many people signed up for each demonstration
• B)manually count the number of people who attended each demonstration
• C)create a top values query based on the field in the CookingDemo table that lists the number of participants
• D)create a pattern match in a query based on the Customer table

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Definitions:

Agents Of Socialization

are individuals, groups, or institutions that play a significant role in integrating people into society by teaching social norms, values, and skills.

Interaction With Pets

The reciprocal actions or influence between humans and animals that are kept for companionship or pleasure.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, occurring between ages 7 and 12, where children gain a better understanding of mental operations and can think logically about concrete events.

Causes And Effects

A concept relating to the identification of reasons behind certain events (causes) and the outcomes that result from these events (effects).