At Hector’s company, the longer you have worked for the company, the higher your hourly wage. Hector surveyed the people at his company and placed his data in the table below. Number of Years at Company

Hourly Wage

How much can Hector expect to make after working at the company for years?

Is this a proportional situation?

Hector’s company is hiring a new employee who will work hours a week. How much do you expect the new employee to earn during the first week?

Arecent study focused on the number of times men and women who live alone buy take-out dinner in a month. assume that the distributions follow the normal probability distribution and the population standard deviations are equal. the information is summarized below. statistic men women sample mean 24.85 21.33 sample standard deviation 5.54 4.93 sample size 34 36 at the 0.01 significance level, is there a difference in the mean number of times men and women order take-out dinners in a month? state the decision rule for 0.01 significance level: h0: μmen= μwomen h1: μmen ≠ μwomen. (negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 3 decimal places.) compute the value of the test statistic. (round your answer to 3 decimal places.) what is your decision regarding the null hypothesis? what is the p-value? (round your answer to 3 decimal places.)