Maria martinez and her sister, christina, are planning to operate a small day care center together. maria originally invested $24,000 in the business, and christina invested $8,000. maria and christina decide to divide all of the profits and share all of the losses using a fixed ratio. if the ratio agreed upon is in proportion to their original investment, what would be christina's share of a $60,000 end-of-year profit? (hint: the original total investment was $32,000, which includes $8,000 from christina and $24,000 from maria. christina's $8,000 is one-fourth, or 25 percent, of the total.)

Josie just bought her first fish tank a 36 -gallon glass aquarium, which she’s been saving up for almost a year to buy. for josie, the fish tank is most likely what type of purchase

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The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?