Tony is a loan officer. He determines his clients’ eligibility for loans and for good interest rates by using their credit scores. The scores of several clients are shown in the following table.

Help Tony evaluate his applicants based on their mean and median credit scores.

Critics of advertising argue that in some markets advertising may

a. decrease elasticity of demand allowing firms to charge a larger markup over marginal cost.

b. attract less informed buyers into the market.

c. enhance competition in markets to an unnecessary degree.
d. attract products of lower quality into the market.

Is the graphed function linear?

Yes, because each input value corresponds to exactly one output value.

Yes, because the outputs increase as the inputs increase.

No, because the graph is not continuous.

No, because the curve indicates that the rate of change is not constant.

7. In 1934, chemist Wallace Carothers produced a plastic which $\qquad$ nylon.

A. his call

B. he called

C. to call him

D. calling

3. Which of the following activities are elements of data driven decision-making? Select all that apply.

Find relevant data

Request observations from subject-matter experts

Exclude information that is based on human intuition

Define the business need