
Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
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Chapter 17, Problem 3ICA
For each question dialog described below, write a MATLAB command to create the dialog.
- a. The title should be Banking, the question should be “What is your bank balance?”, and the options should be Positive, Zero, and Negative, with Positive as the default. The response should be placed in Bal.
- b. The title should be Religion, the question should be “Which term describes your religious beliefs?”, and the options should be Believer. Agnostic, and Atheist, with Agnostic as the default. The response should be stored in Rel.
- c. The title should be Dummy, the question should be “Are you one?” and there should be a single choice labeled “How should I know?” The response should be stored in the variable Dummy.
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