Nicholas sent a chain letter to his friends, asking them to forward the letter to more friends. Every 12 weeks, the number of people who receive the email increases by an additional 99%, percent, and can be modeled by a function, P, which depends on the amount of time, t (in weeks). Nicholas initially sent the chain letter to 50 friends.

Ahypothesis is: a the average squared deviations about the mean of a distribution of values b) an empirically testable statement that is an unproven supposition developed in order to explain phenomena a statement that asserts the status quo; that is, any change from what has been c) thought to be true is due to random sampling order da statement that is the opposite of the null hypothesis e) the error made by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true