A data set contains an independent and a dependent variable. Which must be true of the data set if a linear function can be used to represent the data?
O The set must have a constant additive rate of change.
O The set must have a constant multiplicative rate of change.
O The values in the set must be positive.
O The values in the set must be increasing.

At school there are 526 students and 263 are girls about how likely is it that a randomly chosen student will be a boy

Miranda is braiding her hair. then she will attach beads to the braid. she wants 1_3 of the beads to be red. if the greatest number of beads that will fit on the braid is 12,what other fractions could represent the part of the beads that are red?

At the olympic games, many events have several rounds of competition. one of these events is the men's 100-meter backstroke. the upper dot plot shows the times (in seconds) of the top 8 finishers in the final round of the 2012 olympics. the lower dot plot shows the times of the same 8 swimmers, but in the semifinal round. which pieces of information can be gathered from these dot plots? (remember that lower swim times are faster.) choose all answers that apply: a: the swimmers had faster times on average in the final round. b: the times in the final round vary noticeably more than the times in the semifinal round. c: none of the above.