Last fall Gretchen traveled out of state to attend college. While registering for her classes she signed up to receive several credit cards. After she received them, she immediately began using them to purchase books, clothes, jewelry, a sound system, VCR, and a television set. After four months of extensive use, Gretchen found herself hopelessly in debt. She had no visible means of paying off her debt. She pursued the legal process in which she surrendered the property to the court; the court then sold the property to help pay her debts. This process is known as .

In a high school with 3000 students, counselors are putting together a math tutoring program for the neighboring middle school. they plan to invite high school students with high average test scores to tutor middle school students, and they would like to offer gift cards to the student tutors. the counselors have a spreadsheet showing each student’s average test scores, and in order to find out how many gift cards they should purchase, the counselors need to count how many students would qualify to become tutors. which type of function would best the counselors determine the number of eligible students?