Which of the following best exemplifies overzealous application of an algorithm?
a. Finding the difference 1001-999 by doing all of the steps of the conventional right-to-left algorithm that involves "borrowing."
b. Raising one's hand before all of the other students in order to be the first one to respond to a teacher's computational question.
c. Shouting an answer to a computational problem out loud in class before anyone else has had a chance to think about it.
d. Finding the quotient 14/15 divided by 72/73 by using the conventional invert and multiply algorithm.
Ans: a
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