The following week, Amaia's informatics faculty advisor gives her some advice. In all their years of teaching they claim to observe that working on 75 multiple choice questions boosts a student's test score by about the same amount as spending an hour reviewing lecture notes. For simplicity, assume students are able to review lecture notes at a constant pace during each hour spent studying. Given this information, in order to use her 4 hours of time spent studying to get the highest possible test score, how many hours should she have spent solving multiple choice problems, and how many hours should she have spent reviewing lecture notes?
The following week, Amaia's informatics faculty advisor gives her some advice. In all their years of teaching they claim to observe that working on 75 multiple choice questions boosts a student's test score by about the same amount as spending an hour reviewing lecture notes. For simplicity, assume students are able to review lecture notes at a constant pace during each hour spent studying. Given this information, in order to use her 4 hours of time spent studying to get the highest possible test score, how many hours should she have spent solving multiple choice problems, and how many hours should she have spent reviewing lecture notes?
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![Suppose that Amaia is a diligent second-year college student. One Friday, she decides to start the day by working through 300 sample multiple choice
problems to study for her informatics class. She starts work at 7:00 AM and uses a table to keep track of her progress throughout the day. She notices
that as she the hours pass, it takes her more time to solve the problems.
Time
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
Total Problems Solved
0
120
210
270
300
Use the table to answer the following questions.
The marginal, or additional, gain from Amaia's second hour spent working, from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM, is
The marginal gain from Amaia's fourth hour spent working, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, is
problems.
problems.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fc5a78004-ca57-4112-b007-9612d8e5076f%2F40be0ac3-adfc-466a-aacb-e57531bb3eed%2Fwlm1wgj_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Suppose that Amaia is a diligent second-year college student. One Friday, she decides to start the day by working through 300 sample multiple choice
problems to study for her informatics class. She starts work at 7:00 AM and uses a table to keep track of her progress throughout the day. She notices
that as she the hours pass, it takes her more time to solve the problems.
Time
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
Total Problems Solved
0
120
210
270
300
Use the table to answer the following questions.
The marginal, or additional, gain from Amaia's second hour spent working, from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM, is
The marginal gain from Amaia's fourth hour spent working, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, is
problems.
problems.
![The following week, Amaia's informatics faculty advisor gives her some advice. In all their years of teaching they claim to observe that working on 75
multiple choice questions boosts a student's test score by about the same amount as spending an hour reviewing lecture notes. For simplicity, assume
students are able to review lecture notes at a constant pace during each hour spent studying.
Given this information, in order to use her 4 hours of time spent studying to get the highest possible test score, how many hours should she have
spent solving multiple choice problems, and how many hours should she have spent reviewing lecture notes?
0 hours working on problems, 4 hours reading
1 hour working on problems, 3 hours reading
2 hours working on problems, 2 hours reading
4 hours working on problems, 0 hours reading](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fc5a78004-ca57-4112-b007-9612d8e5076f%2F40be0ac3-adfc-466a-aacb-e57531bb3eed%2F6bk5d3p_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:The following week, Amaia's informatics faculty advisor gives her some advice. In all their years of teaching they claim to observe that working on 75
multiple choice questions boosts a student's test score by about the same amount as spending an hour reviewing lecture notes. For simplicity, assume
students are able to review lecture notes at a constant pace during each hour spent studying.
Given this information, in order to use her 4 hours of time spent studying to get the highest possible test score, how many hours should she have
spent solving multiple choice problems, and how many hours should she have spent reviewing lecture notes?
0 hours working on problems, 4 hours reading
1 hour working on problems, 3 hours reading
2 hours working on problems, 2 hours reading
4 hours working on problems, 0 hours reading
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