Suppose you were to drive from Madison to Rapid City (Black Hills), South Dakota along I-90. Your gas tank when full holds enough gas to travel m miles and you have a map that gives distances between gas stations along the route Let d1 < d2 <...< dn be the locations of all the gas stations along the route where di is the distance from Madison to the gas station i. You can assume that the distance between neighboring gas stations is at most m miles. Your goal is to make as few gas stops as possible along the way. Give a greedy algorithm you can find to determine at which gas stations you should stop and prove that your strategy yields an optimal solution.

the benefits of raising bc’s minimum wage to $15 through a

series of pre-announced staged increases far outweigh the likely

costs. claims that such an increase will lead to massive job losses

in low-wage sectors of the economy are not credible.

• an increase to $15 would result in some job losses. however,

the likely impact is less than a 1 per cent reduction in the overall

provincial employment rate, and a 7.6 per cent reduction in the

employment rate for those currently making between $10.25

and $15 per hour.

• the large job loss impacts predicted by some opponents of

minimum wages misrepresent the existing economic research. in

reading and using that research, it is important to recognize that

estimates showing job loss effects of minimum wage increases

apply only to teenagers. estimated effects for young adult and

adult workers range from insignificant to non-existent.

• focusing on teenage workers plays up an inaccurate stereotype

about who earns very low wages in bc and leads to exaggerated

claims about job losses. only 26 per cent of those currently making

between $10.25 and $12 are teenagers, and only 5 per cent

of those making between $12 and $15 are teenagers.