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Consider the following description of an enterprise. An auction Web site has items for sale that...

Consider the following description of an enterprise.

An auction Web site has items for sale that are provided by sellers. Each item has an opening price, a description, and ending time. Customers submit bids. The highest earliest bid submitted before the ending time is the winning bid and the item is sold to the bidder. Each seller must pay 5% of the winning bid. The auction company wants to be able to analyze the sales behavior of its customers and sellers and so must keep track of all bids and sales.

  1. What entity classes are mentioned in the description?
  2. List seven attributes that will be used in a data model for the auction company.
  3. What relationship types exist between the entity classes of part a?
  4. Give three example entities of each class listed in part a.

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Please find the answers below.

For (a) and (d), look at the first one.

  • For (a) only side headings like buyer, seller,i tem etc.,
  • For (d) each class has entities like description, closing price. etc.,


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