Answer:

Take-off, flight, and landing.

Finding Smaller Tasks

sequence of tasks in Hartford to Miami Problem

 

The "airplane flight" task has been divided into three smaller tasks. Of course, each of these "smaller tasks" is still fairly large. The "take off" task takes hundreds of smaller tasks, and some of those can be further divided into smaller pieces.

It is not always easy to see how a big task can be divided into smaller tasks. Sometimes it is hard to do this when the tasks are parts of a computer program. The way the big task is divided into little tasks depends on how much detail you want.

Some big tasks can be divided into two pieces, others can be divided into four pieces, and so on. Consider the following question:

QUESTION 9:

An airplane flight from Hartford to Miami has a stop-over in Newark. Now, what do you consider to be the major parts of the flight?