Question 1 which statement best describes an interval? a. a chord containing three pitches b. the musical distance between two pitches c. the lowest pitch of each chord d. chords performed in a specific order question 2 which statement best defines an ostinato? a. a short phrase or musical idea b. a repeated rhythm pattern c. a constantly changing melodic pattern d. a rhythm pattern that is constantly changing question 3 think back to the fake "dyno mist" drink that was talked about in lesson 4, what sort of piece of music do they suggest would make it sell better? a. none of these b. a piece in a minor key c. a piece in a major key

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?