Scientists are studying the effect of different temperatures on the processing speed of a computer chip. what is the independent variable be in this experiment?
a. the type of computer
b. the size of the computer
c. the temperature inside the computer
d. how long it takes the computer to perform a complex calculation

Ajeweler designing a pin has decided to use five stones chosen from diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. in how many ways can the stones be selected?

"it security policy enforcement and monitoring" respond to the following: describe how monitoring worker activities can increase the security within organizations. describe the rationale that managers should use to determine the degree of monitoring that the organization should conduct. explain the extent to which you believe an organization has the right to monitor user actions and traffic. determine the actions organizations can take to mitigate the potential issues associated with monitoring user actions and traffic.

In deadlock avoidance using banker’s algorithm, what would be the consequence(s) of: (i) a process declaring its maximum need as maximum possible for each resource. in other words, if a resource a has 5 instances, then each process declares its maximum need as 5. (ii) a process declaring its minimum needs as maximum needs. for example, a process may need 2-5 instances of resource a. but it declares its maximum need as 2.