Answer: it seems to be D, but the equation makes practically no sense!
The value of the factor changes for the different amounts of service years and vacation weeks.
Step-by-step explanation: The equation means that the employee is trying to figure out the value of the "v-factor" for how vacation time is earned.
If you substitute the number of service years into the left side of the "formula" and vacation weeks on the right side, then solve for "v", v(15)=5 you get v= 1/3 or 0.33
If you substitute other numbers, like v(2)=2, so v= 1 then v(30) = 8, v = 4/15 or 0.2667. You see the factor's value decreases. The company is much more generous to to employees with one or two years of service than with the older ones.
Say you're making a recipe that needs 2 1/2 cups of water. But you want to make two servings, so you need to know what 2 1/2 + 2 1/2 equals. Or maybe you need a half cup of milk but you don't have enough. You need to know how much left you need so you can buy or borrow the right amount.
If there is an odd number of data values then the median will be the value in the middle. If there is an even number of data values the median is the mean of the two data values in the middle. For the data set 1, 1, 2, 5, 6, 6, 9 the median is 5. For the data set 1, 1, 2, 6, 6, 9 the median<span> is 4.
</span>The mean<span> is the average of the numbers: a calculated "central" value of a set of numbers. To calculate: Just add up all the numbers, then divide by how many numbers there are.</span><span>
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