The Departmental Patriarch Spent His Last Years at the University

question 78

Multiple Choice

The departmental patriarch spent his last years at the university developing and promoting a Student Portfolio Project that required all departmental faculty to create integrated course projects and maintain a database of their students' work.New graduates could refer their prospective employers to the Student Portfolio Project database to mine examples of their work.The patriarch retired,funding and effort dried up,and the project lingered in a few syllabi and on the department's web site for a year or two but now any mention of it elicits either puzzled looks or wry grins from the remaining faculty.The patriarch's Student Portfolio Project has officially been terminated by:

• A)Extinction.
• B)Addition.
• C)Integration.
• D)Starvation.

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Definitions:

Solution

A homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances in which the solute is completely dissolved in the solvent.

Molality

A measure of the concentration of a solute in a solution in terms of amount of substance per mass of solvent, specifically moles of solute per kilogram of solvent.

Molarity

A measure of the concentration of a solute in a solution, expressed as the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.

Variable

An element, feature, or factor that is liable to vary or change.