Ricardo has just taken over his parents' restaurant. he knows after working there for many years that one of the major concerns among employees is competitive pay. specifically, ricardo's servers think that they are paid less than servers in similar restaurants. to investigate this issue, ricardo employs a company that specializes in gathering data about pay rates for similar positions across the state. the company provides ricardo with the following box-and-whisker plot. ricardo's goal is to provide his servers with competitive pay compared to other restaurants in the state. he currently pays his servers hourly rates ranging from $8.50 to $11.50, depending on experience and seniority. his median server pay is $8.83. based on what he sees in the plot above, which of the following is an appropriate conclusion for ricardo? a. ricardo's median is consistent with the state median. ricardo should leave his servers' pay as it is. b. most of ricardo's servers are paid more than the state median. ricardo should leave his servers' pay as it is. c. ricardo's minimum, maximum, and median are all significantly less that those of the state. ricardo should increase his servers' pay. d. almost half of other servers across the state make more than the highest paid of ricardo's servers. ricardo should increase his servers' pay.

the anwser is d) 75°

step-by-step explanation:

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for

this linear equation would have just one solution.

step-by-step explanation:

the reason why this would have one solution is that it is an expression with just one variable. since that variable is not raised to a power, it will always have just one solution.

aloha~! my name is zalgo and i am here to you out on this amazing day. to answer your question, yes, nonzero numbers can have a greatest common factor and that would be 1. still don't get it? let me considering every number is divisible by 1 and hence every number has 1 as a factor of theirs. so, if 2 nonzero numbers didn't share any gcf (greatest common factor), they would still have a factor in common and that would be 1.

i hope that this ! : p

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