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Here’s your shmoop du jour…

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The salaries of 20 employees and the number

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of years that they worked at their boomerang company are graphed in the following plot. 

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We can’t tell you how excited they are that their graph forms the shape of a boomerang.

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They’re an easily excited bunch.

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Based on this plot, which of the following statements is the most accurate?

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And here are the potential answers:

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OK… this question shows a scatter plot with

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an obvious trend and asks us to, uh… do something with it.

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So we have to just go through the potential answers.

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We have:

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A. “The longer a person works for the company, the higher his/her salary will be.”

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Well, A is kinda true – until about year 5 when everything flat lines.

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We need the BEST answer here so we’re gonna keep reading.

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B. “Every employee is paid approximately the same amount for the first six years.”

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Totally just... wrong. Reject.

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C. “Every employee is paid approximately

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the same amount after having worked at the company for at least six years.”

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This one looks correct – after about year 6, this becomes the people’s republic of

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socialism, more or less.

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D. “A person who has worked at the company

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for 15 years can expect to have a yearly salary of about $100,000.”

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D is just wrong – like… where on earth did they get this one?

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The line flattens at about 80 grand.

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The answer is C.

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As in… “Catch!”

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