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You are given five integers and your task is to find the smallest of them

Vikentia [17]

The minimum number of comparisons to find the smallest number from 5 integers is 4.

<h3>How to find the Smallest Integer?</h3>

Let the five numbers be a,b,c,d and e.

Let s be an integer

Comparison 1:

a and b will be compared first and the smaller number of them will be equal to s

Comparison 2:

Now, a smaller number between a and b that is s will be compared with c. Similarly, the smaller number of both numbers will be taken as s in the next comparison.

Comparison 3:

Likewise, s and d will be compared and a smaller number will be taken as s for the next comparison

Comparison 4:

Likewise, s and e will be compared and a smaller number will be taken as s for the next comparison.

After 4th comparison, s will be equal to smallest number of 5 integers.

Thus;

Total comparisons = 4

Therefore, the minimum number of comparisons to find the smallest number from 5 integers is 4.

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Newton’s law of cooling states that for a cooling substance with initial temperature t0, the temperature t(t) after t minutes ca

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The cooling rate of the substance is approximately 0.0732.

According to the statement, the Newton's law of cooling is defined by the following formula:

$T(t) = T_{s} + (T_{o}-T_{s})\cdot e^{-k\cdot t}$ (1)

Where:

$T_{s}$ - Final temperature, in degrees Celsius.
$T_{o}$ - Initial temperature, in degrees Celsius.
$t$ - Time, in minutes.
$k$ - Cooling rate, in $\frac{1}{min}$ .
$T(t)$ - Current temperature, in degrees Celsius.

Please notice that substance reaches thermal equilibrium when $T(t) = T_{s}$ , that is when temperature of the substance is equal to the temperature of surrounding air.

If we know that $T_{o} = 80\,^{\circ}C$ , $t = 15\,min$ , $T_{s} = 50\,^{\circ}C$ and $T(15) = 60\,^{\circ}C$ , then the cooling rate of the substance is: