The mean number of sick days taken by the employees of Company A is 9, with the number of days taken ranging from 0 to 16. The mean number of sick days taken by the employees of Company B is 6, with the number of days taken ranging from 2 to 9. Which BEST compares the number of sick days taken by the employees of the two companies?

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a is the correct

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given expression is .

now we need to simplify the given expression .

we know that square root is equivalent to the power 1/2. so that means we can take half of the exponents to get the square root of given expression.

expanding that will give a very very large number so let's keep answer in exponent form.