A newspaper article reports the results of an election between two candidates. The article says that Smith received 60% of the votes and that Murphy received 1/4 of the votes. A reader writes in to complain that the article cannot be accurate. What reason might the reader have to say this?

When drawing a trend line for a series of data on a scatter plot, which of the following is true? a. there should be an equal number of data points on either side of the trend line. b. all the data points should lie on one side of the trend line. c. the trend line should not intersect any data point on the plot. d. the trend line must connect each data point on the plot.

Mrs. morton has a special reward system for her class. when all her students behave well, she rewards them by putting 3 marbles into a marble jar. when the jar has 100 or more marbles, the students have a party. right now, the the jar has 24 marbles. how could mrs. morton reward the class in order for the students to have a party?

What is the range of the function? f(x)=-2|x+1|? a. all real numbers. b. all real numbers less than or equal to 0. c. all real numbers less than or equal to 1. d. all real numbers greater than or equal to 1