(10) DUE: Thursday, April 1

• What are diophantine equations? Google on web and bring in answer.
  
• How do you solve them? Google "Cows, Pigs, and Chickens" and read how it is done with an easy problem.
  

(9) DUE: Tuesday & Wednesday, March 30 & 31

• Presentations on College MCDM
  

(8) DUE: Monday, March 29

• Complete College Project including one sensitivity analysis.
• Discuss your results. Is it waht you expected? Are there other changes you should make?

• Multi-Criteria Decision Making Assessment
• Open notes.
  

(7) DUE: Friday, March 26

• Calculate the weights for each of your measures.
  
• Compare and re-evaluate the criteria weights.
• Calculate the total scores for each college.
  

(6) DUE: Thursday, March 25

• Re-scale your data after determining the range and creating structured categories.
  

(6) DUE: Wednesday, March 24

• List a minimum of 5 college options
• List the measures you will use for each of the four criteria: Academic, Financial, Social, and Location
• Collect data for your measures (You will need this data to re-scale for tomorrow's assignment, so do not delay in gathering it.)
  

(5) DUE: Tuesday, March 23

• Cars analysis with sensitivity analysis
• (This is a project grade.)
• Hand in: 2 pages of analysis, one sensitivity analysis, and discussion of your results.
• Discussion: Is this what you expected? What criteria or measure most influenced your result. Did your analysis change your mind about which car is "best" for you?
  

(3) DUE: Monday, March 22

• Complete two page analysis of choosing a used car for purchase.
• How do you range your three cars?
  
• Do one sensitivity analysis in which you adjust weights.
• How does this change your rankings?
  

(2) DUE: Friday, March 19

• Using class criteria and measures for purchasing used cars, collect data and rescale it to standard units.
• Set range.
• Determine if categorical or quantitative.
• Determine if natural or structured.
• Re-scale to standard units.
  

(1) DUE: Thursday, March 18

• Select THREE used cars priced at less than $5,000 that you like.
• Print off offering.
• Find and write on summary tables: year, price, mileage, distance from your home, EPA(city and highway), Consumer review, safety rating, and general description
• All of this information may be obtained from www.cars.org or the sites it directs you (including www.safercar.gov). You may use other sites, including www.vehix.com, but you need all of this info.
  
• If you find a car without some of this info, select another car.
  

DUE: Tuesday, March 16

• Read two operations research articles from packet:
• "Operation Everything": What is operations research and why so important?
  
• "When Shove Comes To Push": Why is intuition sometimes faulty? Answer questions at end of article.
  

DUE: Monday, March 15

• Read Checkboard Code from NUMB3RS.
• Answer questions.
• Be ready for the NUMB3RS show Janus that uses encryption.
  

DUE: Friday, March 12

• Solve Hill Code message.
• (You may wnat to write portfolio page now, while it is fresh in your head. Otherwise, it's due next Tuesday.)
  

DUE: Thursday, March 11

• Matrices Chapter Extension: Keyword Code
• Read extension.
• Summarized method.
• SOLVE coded message at end!