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题目:
A certain right triangle has sides of length x , y , and z, where
. If the area of this triangular region is 1, which of the following indicates all of the possible values of y ?
选项:
A、

B、

C、

D、

E、

答案:
A





| Line | Because the framers of the United States |
| Constitution (written in 1787) believed that protecting | |
| property rights relating to inventions would encourage | |
| the new nations economic growth, they gave | |
| (5) | Congress—the national legislature—a constitutional |
| mandate to grant patents for inventions. The resulting | |
| patent system has served as a model for those in | |
| other nations. Recently, however, scholars have | |
| questioned whether the American system helped | |
| (10) | achieve the framers goals. These scholars have |
| contended that from 1794 to roughly 1830, American | |
| inventors were unable to enforce property rights | |
| because judges were antipatent and routinely | |
| invalidated patents for arbitrary reasons. This | |
| (15) | argument is based partly on examination of court |
| decisions in cases where patent holders (patentees) | |
| brought suit alleging infringement of their patent | |
| rights. In the 1820s, for instance, 75 percent | |
| of verdicts were decided against the patentee. | |
| (20) | The proportion of verdicts for the patentee began to |
| increase in the 1830s, suggesting to these scholars | |
| that judicial attitudes toward patent rights began | |
| shifting then. | |
| Not all patent disputes in the early nineteenth | |
| (25) | century were litigated, however, and litigated |
| cases were not drawn randomly from the | |
| population of disputes. Therefore the rate of | |
| verdicts in favor of patentees cannot be used | |
| by itself to gauge changes in judicial attitudes | |
| (30) | or enforceability of patent rights. If early judicial |
| decisions were prejudiced against patentees, one | |
| might expect that subsequent courts—allegedly | |
| more supportive of patent rights—would reject | |
| the former legal precedents. But pre-1830 | |
| (35) | cases have been cited as frequently as later |
| decisions, and they continue to be cited today, | |
| suggesting that the early decisions, many of | |
| which clearly declared that patent rights were | |
| a just recompense for inventive ingenuity, | |
| (40) | provided a lasting foundation for patent law. |
| The proportion of judicial decisions in favor of | |
| patentees began to increase during the 1830s | |
| because of a change in the underlying population | |
| of cases brought to trial. This change was partly | |
| (45) | due to an 1836 revision to the patent system: |
| an examination procedure, still in use today, was | |
| instituted in which each application is scrutinized | |
| for its adherence to patent law. Previously, | |
| patents were automatically granted upon payment | |
| (50) | of a $30 fee. |