(1) Heuristics (pronounced hyoo-ris' tiks) are rules of thumb that help us to simplify problems. (2) They do not guarantee a solution, but they may bring it within reach. (3) A very simple heuristic method is hill-climbing. (4) In this process, we try to move continually closer to our final goal without ever digressing or going backward. (5) On a multiple-choice test, for example, one useful strategy in answering each question is to eliminate the alternatives that are obviously incorrect. (6) Even if this does not leave you with the one correct answer, you are closer to a solution. (7) Or in trying to balance a budget, each reduction in expenses brings you closer to the goal and leaves you with a smaller deficit to deal with. (8) Another heuristic method is the creation of subgoals. (9) By setting subgoals, we can often break a problem into smaller, more manageable pieces, each of which is easier to solve than the problem as a whole. (10) A student whose goal is to write a history paper might set subgoals by breaking down the work into a series of separate tasks: choosing a topic, doing the research, preparing an outline, writing the first draft, editing, rewriting, and so on. QuestionA1. The main idea is expressed in sentence
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What is the best meaning for obscure in this line from the passage? a) ancient b) dark c) royal d) unknown

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

How do you think the political and social strife of england influenced jonathan swift ? how were these problems connected to reason