THE SCENARIO: Sookie's take-home pay each month is $3500. Her essential expenses each month are $2225. She's not currently contributing to any retirement accounts, but she does have a savings account at her bank. For the past four months, she's been keeping track of her spending and saving, and here are the
results:

May—spent $3200, put $300 into saving
June—spent $3450, put $50 into saving
July—spent $3475, put $25 into saving
August—spent $3250, put $250 into saving

Her 12 month goal is to save up 75% of her $12,000 emergency fund and save
enough for a big vacation with her friends (which will cost approximately $4500). Her
36 month goal is to finish getting her emergency fund to 100% and to start investing
for retirement and have at least $25,000 invested.

YOUR TASK: Write a detailed savings plan for Sookie to meet her goals. Responses
MUST include:
1. How much Sookie already has saved, and how much she can save per month total
(take home pay minus essential expenses).
2. How much more she needs to save total at both the 12 month mark and the 36
month mark.
3. A detailed savings plan for both the 12 month and 36 month goals. *HINT*: She
can save for multiple goals simultaneously.

the mean and mad

step-by-step explanation:

the results from a pre-test for students for the year 2000 and the year 2010 are illustrated in the box plot. what do these results tell us about how students performed on the 29 question pre-test for the two years?

if we compare only the lowest and highest scores between the two years, we might conclude that the students in 2010 did better than the students in 2010. this conclusion seems to follow since the lowest score of 8 in 2010 is greater in value than the lowest score of 6 in 2000. also, the highest score of 28 in 2010 is greater in value than the highest score of 27 in 2000.

but the box portion of the illustration gives us more detailed information. the middle bar in each box shows us that the median score of 20 in 2000 is greater in value than the median score of 17 in 2010. further, we note that the box and whiskers divide the illustration into four pieces. each of these four pieces represents the same portion of students. so, the upper half of the students in 2000 scored in the same score range as the upper one-fourth of the students in 2010, see the illustration at a score of 20.

by considering the upper one-fourth, upper half, and upper three-fourths instead of just the lowest and highest scores, we would conclude that the students as a whole did much better in 2000 than in 2010. we would conclude that as a whole the students in 2010 are less prepared than the students in 2000.

in this section, we discuss box-and-whisker plots and the five key values used in constructing a box-and-whisker plot. the key values are called a five-number summary, which consists of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

step-by-step explanation: