1)a)it came out with 5076 hits for death and penalty and for death penalty with quotes it came out to be 4744 hits.

b) They were in the text of the document. And they were in separate parts of it.

Some documents had it adjacent and very few had it in the title.

c) If you wanted to have exactly death penalty you would need to put it In quotes like “death penalty” because it would be seen as one word in the search.

2) A) D ^ P-death and penalty- 5077 hits

B) DV P- death or penalty- 234,014 hits

C) S- “Death Penalty”-4745 hits

D) S ^ N- “death penalty” and “New York State”-347 hits

E) S ^ ~ N-”death Penalty” and Not “New York State”

F) S V C- “death penalty” or “capital punishment”-6881 hits

G) S ^ C- “Death penalty” and “capital punishment”- 2915 hits

3) To get an exact phrase using boolean operators you would use AND, OR, Not in the phrases. However to get an exact phrase as two topics put together you need to use quotes otherwise it wont read the search as two separate words with AND, OR, and NOT in it.

4) A- D ^ P- baseball and players-26796 hits

D V P- baseball or players- 157144 hits

S-”baseball players”- 18588 hits

S ^ N- “baseball players” and “steroid use”-180 hits

S ^ ~ N- “baseball players” and not “steroid use”-0 hits

S V C- “baseball players” or “drug use”- 45034 hits

S ^ C- “baseball players” and “drug abuse”- 110

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