8. Your friend's parents each have a job. Her mother's average weekly salary is $740 with a standard deviation of $43. Her father's average weekly salary is $535, with a standard deviation of $25. Find the average weekly salary of her parents combined, and the standard deviation of their combined salaries. You can assume that the amount of money her mother makes has no effect on her father's salary, and vice versa. (3.5 points)

The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation