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===== 2008 MCM B: Creating Sudoku Puzzles ===== | ===== 2008 MCM B: Creating Sudoku Puzzles ===== | ||
Develop an algorithm to construct Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty. Develop metrics to define a difficulty level. The algorithm and metrics should be extensible to a varying number of difficulty levels. You should illustrate the algorithm with at least 4 difficulty levels. Your algorithm should guarantee a unique solution. Analyze the complexity of your algorithm. Your objective should be to minimize the complexity of the algorithm and meet the above requirements. | Develop an algorithm to construct Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty. Develop metrics to define a difficulty level. The algorithm and metrics should be extensible to a varying number of difficulty levels. You should illustrate the algorithm with at least 4 difficulty levels. Your algorithm should guarantee a unique solution. Analyze the complexity of your algorithm. Your objective should be to minimize the complexity of the algorithm and meet the above requirements. | ||
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===== 2008 ICM: Finding the Good in Health Care Systems ===== | ===== 2008 ICM: Finding the Good in Health Care Systems ===== | ||
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affecting overall health; percentage of GDP spent on health care; percentage of health care costs that goes toward labor/ | affecting overall health; percentage of GDP spent on health care; percentage of health care costs that goes toward labor/ | ||
of citizens, and smoking habits. | of citizens, and smoking habits. | ||
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The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations, is a source of data on health factors. The annual World Health Report (http:// | The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations, is a source of data on health factors. The annual World Health Report (http:// | ||
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**Part I**: Describe several different outcomes (metrics) that could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of a country’s health care system, such as average life expectancy of its residents. What metric would you use to make comparisons between existing and potential systems? Can you combine your metrics to make them even more useful in measuring quality? | **Part I**: Describe several different outcomes (metrics) that could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of a country’s health care system, such as average life expectancy of its residents. What metric would you use to make comparisons between existing and potential systems? Can you combine your metrics to make them even more useful in measuring quality? | ||
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**Part II**: Identify current sources of data that provide the raw data needed to compute the metrics you have identified above. You may need to modify your list of metrics based on the availability of data. Explain why you have selected those data and demonstrate how they can be used to assess and compare the relative effectiveness of health care systems as they exist in different countries. | **Part II**: Identify current sources of data that provide the raw data needed to compute the metrics you have identified above. You may need to modify your list of metrics based on the availability of data. Explain why you have selected those data and demonstrate how they can be used to assess and compare the relative effectiveness of health care systems as they exist in different countries. | ||
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**Part IV**: Use your three (or more) metrics to compare the United States health care system with one other country that is considered to have good health care using the most recent year for which you have data. Which country has the better health care system? Is your answer definitive? | **Part IV**: Use your three (or more) metrics to compare the United States health care system with one other country that is considered to have good health care using the most recent year for which you have data. Which country has the better health care system? Is your answer definitive? | ||
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**Part VI**: Pick a country’s (US or other) health care system and restructure it to improve the system based on your metrics. | **Part VI**: Pick a country’s (US or other) health care system and restructure it to improve the system based on your metrics. | ||
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