Answer:
Definetely, it is reasonable. You may assume that a pet as a companionship will help the elderly feel more comfortable and therefore, happy. There are a few problems tough:
- There is no practical way of meassuring 'happiness'.
- Sometimes, the correlations of two factors may be a coincidence. Scientist should always consider this when they try to claim something byusing some backup logic, like we did.
- Even tough the statement makes some sense, you need to be aware that maybe is not completly positively correlated. Maybe having 20 more pets does not make an elderly happy if it alredy had 1 or 2.
In the top the "f(x)" equals 9, now they are asking you to add onto the 9 by 1 causing it to be 10. If you did the first few you would have noticed that it takes 9 in order to get to 5 from -4.
here are the answers btw:
Suspecting that his parents are going to give him $1,300 continually you would solve like this
$120,000-$100= $19,900
$19,900/$1,300= 92.23
92.23 is the amount of $1,300 donations it would take from his parents, so if he was getting $1,300 month it would take 92.23 months
