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                                                Go to the Assignments section of your MyLab to complete these writing exercises.

                                                4-19.  Suppose your first job after graduating from college is working at a large insurance com-
                                                       pany. Your boss asks you to analyze the impact self-driving cars will have on revenues
                                                       from car insurance policies. List four ways self-driving cars could impact the insurance
                                                       industry. Justify your answers.

                                                4-20.  Visit www.distrowatch.com. Click on one of the top five listed Linux distributions (like
                                                       Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or OpenSUSE). Click on the Screenshots link for that
                                                       distribution. List some similarities between this operating system and your current
                                                       operating system. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of switching from
                                                       your current operating system to a Linux distribution.





                     enDnotes


                      1.  SAS Institute Inc., “Big Data Meets Big Data Analytics,” SAS.com, accessed   com/en-us/news/stories/88acres/88-acres-how-microsoft-quietly-built-
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                     8.  Ibid.                                               from-chocolates-to-pizza.
                      9.  Jennifer Warnick, “88 Acres: How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of     18.  Dan Ferber, “An Essential Step Toward Printing Living Tissues,”
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