Provide an appropriate response.A high school student is considering a number of different careers. Which information do you think would be more useful to him, the average salary or the median salary for people in each career? Explain your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Possible answer: The median salary would be more useful. In this situation we want to deemphasize the few exceptionally high salaries. The median salary will give a better indication of what "most" people make. The average salary will give too much weight to the few exceptionally high salaries.
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Use the figure to answer the question.The bar graph below shows the number of students by major in the College of Arts and Sciences.
What percent of students in the college are history majors (to the nearest tenth of a percent)?
A. 75.5% B. 66.7% C. 24.5% D. 32.7%
The New Town Jewelry Company purchased 500 one-carat diamond rings for $125,000. Based on the following information, find the selling price per ring to the nearest cent.Unsaleable: 65Markup on selling price: 15%
A. $338.85 B. $338.07 C. $287.36 D. $294.12
Find the vertices and locate the foci for the hyperbola whose equation is given.
- 
= 1
A. vertices: (0, -5), (0, 5)
foci: (- 
, 0) , (
, 0)
B. vertices: (-5, 0), (5, 0)
foci: (-4, 0), (4, 0)
C. vertices: (-4, 0), (4, 0)
foci: (- 
, 0) , (
, 0)
D. vertices: (0, -5), (0, 5)
foci: (0, - 
) , (0, 
)
Establish the identity.1 + sec2x sin2x = sec2x
What will be an ideal response?