Determine how each of these trees would categorize the items below. Explain your responses.

A decision tree for categorizing objects as one of six things: knife, fork, spoon, plate, mug, or cup.

A less precise decision tree for categorizing objects as one of four options: knife, fork or spoon, plate, mug or cup.

1 butter knife

2 chopstick

3 spork

4 butter knife

5 chopstick

6 spork

7 What do you Notice about the two decision trees above?

8 What do you Wonder about the two decision trees?

9 Which decision tree (above) would make predictions more efficiently? Explain.
Hint: A program is efficient when it performs a task with minimal time, memory, energy or data.

10 Which decision tree (above) would make predictions more accurately? Explain.

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