Afour-year-old laptop will not boot and presents error messages on screen. you have verified with the laptop technical support that these error messages indicate the motherboard has failed and needs replacing. what is the first question you should ask yourself before performing the repair?

Consider the following generator matrix: g= (1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0) find all the codewords generated by this generator matrix. determine the number of errors that this code will detect. determine the number of errors that this code will correct. prove that a linear code's minimum weight is equivalent to its minimum distance. that is, where c is a linear code, dist(c) = wh(c)

4.11 painting a wall (1) prompt the user to input integers for a wall's height and width. calculate and output the wall's area (integer). note that in this case there is a new line after each prompt. (submit for 1 point). enter wall height (feet): 11 enter wall width (feet): 15 wall area: 165 square feet (2) extend to also calculate and output the amount of paint in gallons needed to paint the wall (floating point). assume a gallon of paint covers 350 square feet. store this value in a variable. output the amount of paint needed using the %f conversion specifier. (submit for 2 points, so 3 points total). enter wall height (feet): 11 enter wall width (feet): 15 wall area: 165 square feet paint needed: 0.471429 gallons (3) extend to also calculate and output the number of 1 gallon cans needed to paint the wall. hint: use a math function to round up to the nearest gallon. (submit for 2 points, so 5 points total). enter wall height (feet): 11 enter wall width (feet): 15 wall area: 165 square feet paint needed: 0.471429 gallons

Johnson enterprises uses a computer to handle its sales invoices. lately, business has been so good that it takes an extra 3 hours per night, plus every third saturday, to keep up with the volume of sales invoices. management is considering updating its computer with a faster model that would eliminate all of the overtime processing.