As You Are Walking Out of Class One Night,you Discover

question 36

Multiple Choice

As you are walking out of class one night,you discover a notebook,full of equations,belonging to a professor in your school.You write a note telling him who you are and where and when you found it,and you drop the note,in an envelope,into one of the university's internal mailboxes.The next day the campus is covered with notices that say "$100 REWARD.A notebook containing mathematical explanation of the meaning of life has been lost.If found,please return to Professor Doddering in Room A123."

• A)You have no legal right to the $100.
• B)You have a legal right to the $100 since you can prove you put the note in the mail to Prof.Doddering.
• C)You have a legal right to the $100 provided you can prove you found it after Prof.Doddering posted the reward notices.
• D)Since this was an offer to the public at large,you have accepted it by mailing it,and Prof.Doddering legally must give you $100.
• E)While you have no legal right to the reward,the court will enforce your moral right to it.

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Definitions:

Independent

Not influenced or controlled by others; capable of thinking or acting for oneself.

Standard Deviations

A statistical measure indicating the dispersion or spread of a set of numbers from their mean; it shows how much variation there is from the average.

Independent

Not influenced by or subject to another, capable of thinking or acting for oneself.

Standard Deviations

An estimator of the dispersion level or variability in a sequence of numbers.