Question: Task 3 ( 3 . 0 marks ) Analysis of business statements and normalization Each manufacturer manufactures many disk - drives, and the manufacturer assigns

Task 3(3.0 marks) Analysis of business statements and normalization
Each manufacturer manufactures many disk-drives, and the manufacturer assigns each disk-drive a serial number. The serial number is unique within a manufacturer, but not across all other manufacturers. The manufacturer registers the model of the disk-drive it produces to the intellectual property Office of Singapore (IPOS) so that the model of the disk drive is protected and cannot be used by other manufacturer. The disk-drives are manufactured by batch, and all the disk-drives manufactured in a batch are of the same model, and all the diskdrives of the same model have the same capacity. A distributor collaborates with many manufacturers to help the manufacturers to distribute the disk-drives the distributor receives to retailers. A distributor creates a relational table DISK_DRIVE to store the information/attributes of the disk drive it distributes to retailers as follows:
DISK_DRIVE(serialNum, manufacturer, model, batch, capacity, retailer)
Each tuple in the relation DISK_DRIVE contains information about a disk drive with a unique serialNum, made by a manufacturer, with a particular model number, released in a certain batch, which has a certain storage capacity and is sold by a certain retailer. For example, the tuple Disk_drive('1978649', 'WesternDigital', 'A2235X','765234',500, 'CompSingapore') specifies that WesternDigital made a disk drive with a serial number 1978649 and a model number A2235X, released in batch 765234 ; it is 500 GB and is sold by CompSingapore.
Write each of the following statements as a function dependency:
i. The manufacturer and serial number uniquely identify the drive.
ii. A model number is registered by a manufacturer and therefore cannot be used by another manufacturer.
iii. All disk drives in a particular batch are the same model.
iv. All disk drives of a certain model of a particular manufacturer have exactly the same capacity.
Task 3 ( 3 . 0 marks ) Analysis of business

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