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Which of the following best describes a computer?
Which of the following best describes a computer?
- An apparatus that performs routine calculations automatically (correct)
- A calculator or number cruncher
- A device used for walking across a room
- A machine that balances a checkbook
What is the main idea of the text?
What is the main idea of the text?
- Walking across a room requires complex calculations
- Computers are only used for mathematical calculations
- Calculations are the foundation of computer programming
- Computers can solve a wide range of problems (correct)
What did the people who created the computer have to understand?
What did the people who created the computer have to understand?
- That a computer is capable of more than just calculations (correct)
- That a computer is a number cruncher
- That a computer is a device for walking across a room
- That a computer is just a calculator
What is the purpose of dispelling the simplistic understanding of calculation?
What is the purpose of dispelling the simplistic understanding of calculation?
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What is an example of a problem that computers can solve?
What is an example of a problem that computers can solve?
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