TASK DEFINITION: You are given a passage. You need to construct a question about the information present in the passage. Construct a question in such a way that (i) it is unambiguous, (ii) its answer is the whole paragraph. Avoid creating questions that can be answered correctly without actually understanding the paragraph.
PROBLEM: It may actually hurt you FICO score.

One part of the score is the amount of credit used versus the amount of credit available. So, let's take a look at an example:

$200 total credit available
$175 total credit used
Ratio of 0.875 (high)

$5000 total credit available
$1000 total credit used
Ration of 0.2 (relatively low)

The bottom ration of 0.2 is more ideal. Credit companies have found that the higher the ratio a person has (they get credit and max it out), the less likely they will pay it off.

Of course some store credit cards do not report to the credit bureaua unless you go to collections. So it doesn't matter what you do with them as long as you don't stop paying them.

It's best to just hold on to them. You might even consider having the credit limit taken up (but don't max them out). It's not how much of a limit you have that's important to the credit companies, it how much of it you're using.

Also you may want to consider the fact that although your credit score may not be affected very much if you cancel your card, if the store reports to the credit bureau, other companies will see that you canceled a card. To other companies, this means if they give you credit, you're likely to just cancel it. Meaning you may be more of a hassle than you're worth.

Hope this helps.

SOLUTION: Does cancelling store credit cards help or hurt your credit score?

PROBLEM: In the current descending cycle there have been twenty-four Tirthankars from Bhagawan Rishabhdev to Bhagawan Mahavir.

There names are as follows:

1. Rishabhdev 9. Suvidhinath 17. Kunthunath

2. Ajitnath 10. Sheetalnath 18. Arnath

3. Sambhavnath 11. Shreyansnath 19. Mallinath

4. Abhinandan 12. Vasupujya 20. Munisuvrat

5. Sumatinath 13. Vimalnath 21. Naminath

6. Padmaprabh 14. Anantnath 22. Arishtanemi

7. Suparshvanath 15. Dharmnath 23. Parshvanath

8. Chandraprabh 16. Shantinath 24. Mahavir

SOLUTION: how many tirthankar in jainism?

PROBLEM: My answer is google for the following reasons:

Pros of Google:

As a seach engine, google has the best relevance and presents the results in a way that I find easy to decide what pages are best for me. Its the best in terms of researching information.

For makin money, a #1 on google is worth many times more than a #1 on yahoo. Yahoo! blocks the top of the SERPs with sponsored ads.

Google also has a neat interface. Yahoo is not bad too, but its interface is not that neat. The reason for that being it to be a portal. I think a nice interface is very important since people will come back more often if so.

The relevance of search results make its 'Feeling Lucky' feature pretty useful. Firefox address bar by defaults goes to 1 site listed on your search results.

Google has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.

Cons of Google:

However, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.

Also, Google at present does not provide an index for video aggregation through the web crawler, a feature which Altavista provided since 1999. The problems include accuracy of the media file. That is the reason for providing Google Videos where users have to submit videos.

Due to a larger share of 'searching' community, Google has been targeted by bloggers by planting Google Bombs. Because most bloggers mention the word failure with President Bush's name, the #1 site on searching Failure is the website of President Bush.

Yahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker.
http://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250

SOLUTION:
Is Yahoo or Google a better resource for research? What is another good resource for academic research?