____ Are an Excellent Tool for Building Both the Data

question 1

Multiple Choice

____ are an excellent tool for building both the data and the models that decision support systems need,and therefore they make excellent tools for building decision support software.

• A) Spreadsheets
• B) Data sheets
• C) Data lists
• D) Base lists

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Definitions:

Noncollinear Points

A set of three or more points that do not all lie on a single straight line.

Coefficient Matrix

A matrix consisting of the coefficients of the variables in a set of linear equations.

Linear Equations

Equations of the first degree, where variables are raised only to the power of one and graph as straight lines.

Augmented Matrix

An augmented matrix is a matrix used in linear algebra, consisting of the coefficient matrix of a system of linear equations and one or more columns added to the right, representing the constants from the equations' right-hand sides.