Victorian Certificate of Education
Algorithmics (HESS)

With respect to the pseudocode above and trace table below, choose the correct boolean values for outputs N & M.

Given an array of integers of length 7 called INTEGERS, the following pseudocode has been written to output the two biggest integers it contains. The algorithm should handle both negative and positive values as well as repeated values.

Choose the pseudocode snippet below to replace "INSERT_CODE_HERE" in order to have the above procedure function correctly.

In diving competitions, divers receive scores out of ten from seven judges for each dive. Each dive is also attributed a degree of difficulty which is a number ranging from 1.2 to 3.8 (inclusive) in one-tenth increments. For example, upon completion of a 2.5 degree difficulty dive, a diver may achieve the following scores: 5.5, 7.5, 5.5, 7.5, 6.5, 5.0, 7.0 These scores are then used to calculate a single final score as follows: - Bubble Sort is applied to the unordered scores to arrange the sequence from lowest to highest: 5.0, 5.5, 5.5, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, 7.5 - The two lowest / highest scores are disregarded, leaving exactly three scores: 5.5, 6.5, 7.0 (Note: at most two values from each extremity are disregarded, meaning that some equally low/high values may be retained) - The remaining three scores are added together: 5.5 + 6.5 + 7.0 = 19 - Finally, the total is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to arrive at the final dive score: 19 × 2.5 = 47.5

An association of professional diving clubs has decided to move their historic diving competition records from a simple spreadsheet into a more sophisticated electronic database solution. Future diving competition results will be entered directly into the new database. The association wishes the new database to accomodate data from affiliated non-diving groups such as swimming clubs. Furthermore, in an effort to more readily share their data with a variety of external organisations worldwide, the association plans to expose their database to the web via a secure API. Consultants hired to implement an appropriate solution for the diving association have differing views - while some suggest a relational database solution, others recommend an object-oriented one.