Please explain, in general, the purpose of an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) to a person with no knowledge on such topic.

Jason, samantha, ravi, sheila, and ankit are preparing for an upcoming marathon. each day of the week, they run a certain number of miles and write them into a notebook. at the end of the week, they would like to know the number of miles run each day, the total miles for the week, and average miles run each day. write a program to them analyze their data. your program must contain parallel arrays: an array to store the names of the runners and a two-dimensional array of five rows and seven columns to store the number of miles run by each runner each day. furthermore, your program must contain at least the following functions: a function to read and store the runners’ names and the numbers of miles run each day; a function to find the total miles run by each runner and the average number of miles run each day; and a function to output the results. (you may assume that the input data is stored in a file and each line of data is in the following form: runnername milesday1 milesday2 milesday3 milesday4 milesday5 milesday6 milesday7.)

Helen's credit card has an apr of 15.32% and a grace period of 17 days and helen pays her balance in the full every month. if her last billing cycle ended on september 26, 2009, and she made her payment on october 11, 2009, did she owe any interest on her last statement's balance?

Acompany is hiring professionals for web designing. the firm is small with few resources. they want employees who possess problem-solving skills and can independently carry out responsibilities. which kind of employee should they select?