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Re: Purchasing the 2009 controller
Suppose an automobile dealer were to offer the following great deal:
- First-time customers pay $6000 for a brand new car.
- Repeat customers can get a new car every year for $6000, but they won't get a new engine controller. Instead, they must remove the engine controller from their existing car and install it in the new one. Or, they can pay $8000 and get a complete new car.
- The dealer sponsors a really fun road rally every year, but you must purchase a new car to participate.
How many repeat customers will this dealer get?
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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