The efficiency of a sequential search can be improved by placing the records with the highest probability of retrieval at the ___. A search technique that uses this strategy is . A related strategy is "Move to the Front". Of these two, is considered better because it responds more quickly to changes in retrieval patterns. If you do not know anything about the usage patterns of newly inserted items, then the best place to insert is at the of the list. SELECT FROM FOLLOWING CHOICES TO FILL IN THE BLANKS:
blank
middle
third
second
next to last
end
beginning
index sequential search
binary search
interpolation search
transposition
Move-To-The-Front
B-tree
AVL tree
sequential search

In the context of it jobs in the information systems field. a is responsible for database design and implementation

1. the program must provide following functions to extract some statistics. note that the data_list parameter specified in these functions may be the same for all functions or different for different functions—that is your choice. a skeleton file is provided on mirmir. a) open_file()prompts the user to enter a year number for the data file. the program will check whether the year is between 1990 and 2015 (both inclusive). if year number is valid, the program will try to open data file with file name ‘year.txt’, where is the year. appropriate error message should be shown if the data file cannot be opened or if the year number is invalid. this function will loop until it receives proper input and successfully opens the file. it returns a file pointer and year. i. hint: use string concatenation to construct the file name b) read_file(fp)has one parameter, a file pointer read. this function returns a list of your choosing containing data you need for other parts of this project. c) find_average(data_list) takes a list of data (of some organization of your choosing) and returns the average salary. the function does not print anything. hints: i. this is not the average of the last column of data. it is not mathematically valid to find an average by finding the average of averages—for example, in this case there are many more in the lowest category than in the highest category. ii. how many wage earners are considered in finding the average (denominator)

The total cost of textbooks for the term was collected from 36 students. create a histogram for this data. $140 $160 $160 $165 $180 $220 $235 $240 $250 $260 $280 $285 $285 $285 $290 $300 $300 $305 $310 $310 $315 $315 $320 $320 $330 $340 $345 $350 $355 $360 $360 $380 $395 $420 $460 $460