First, find the mean. You'll need it to compute the variance.

The variance of the sample is then computed with the formula

The standard deviation is the square root of the variance, so
so, you're correct, it is the Food industry, and it went down from 2.7 to 2.5, well, so it really went down 2.7 - 2.5 or 0.2.
well, if we take 2.7 to be the 100% from that row, what is 0.2 off of it in percentage format?

Answer:
y = m x + b standard form of equation for straight line\
m = (y2 - y1) / (x2 - x1) = (20 - -8) / 17 - 1) = 28 / 16
m = 7 / 4
Answer:
pretty sure she did something wrong in the 1st step, it specifically said to do 6.1-4.5, but she changed the parathenesis, resulting in a different answer
Normally you would divide something like this by the cuts made. So if there were cuts of 2 inches on a 10 inch rope, then you should divide 10 by 2. It's the same with this:

Multiply by the reciprocal when you are dividing fractions.