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Friday you should relax and have some fun.
It definitely would have been helpful had you had the feedback from weekly assignment 5 and Lab 7 for the exam. That's my bad, so I'm going to only count exam 2 in your final grade if it benefits you.
I may use your performance on it, however, to give some impression of how you are doing at midterm (those grades are due next week).
Yes, it's frequently about approximating complicated situations (functions) with simpler things.