Carmella just planted seeds for her vegetable garden. Anxious to view the progress of her plants, she checks her garden one afternoon, but sees that 4 weeds she has never seen before are growing in her vegetable garden. After a few weeks, she notices that the number of weeds appears to be tripling each week. If she doesn’t do something, she calculates that there could soon be 972 weeds in her garden. If represents the number of weeks, which equation could be used to determine what week Carmella would expect to find 972 weeds in her garden:

Use a calculator to verify that σ(x) = 62, σ(x2) = 1034, σ(y) = 644, σ(y2) = 93,438, and σ(x y) = 9,622. compute r. (enter a number. round your answer to three decimal places.) as x increases from 3 to 22 months, does the value of r imply that y should tend to increase or decrease? explain your answer. given our value of r, y should tend to increase as x increases. given our value of r, we can not draw any conclusions for the behavior of y as x increases. given our value of r, y should tend to remain constant as x increases. given our value of r, y should tend to decrease as x increases.