Why Would You Use Friiss's Formula

question 8

Multiple Choice

Why would you use Friiss's formula?

• A)To provide the overall noise effect of a multistage system.
• B)To break down any periodic waveform into a series of sine and/or cosine waves at multiples of the fundamental frequency.
• C)To establish that different users can share bands of frequencies provided that each user was assigned exclusive use of a frequency range within that band.
• D)To show how the construction of a square wave can be seen to be made up of a number of sinusoids.

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Definitions:

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A theory indicating it is impossible to formulate a social preference ordering that satisfies all of a specific set of reasonable criteria when voters have three or more options.

Pairwise Majority Voting

A voting system in which each option is compared head-to-head with every other option, with the option winning the most direct comparisons being considered the overall winner.

Condorcet Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (not transitive) despite the transitive preferences of individual voters.

Majority Rule

A decision-making principle where the preferences or decisions supported by more than half of the participants are adopted.