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Adepartment store purchases screen-printed t-shirts at a cost of $5 per shirt. they mark up the price 150% (making the selling price 250% of the store's purchase price) and put them on the sales floor. every month that a t-shirt doesn't sell, the store reduces the selling price by 25%.

School has 204 sixth grade students. if the sixth grade is 30% of the total school, how many students are in the middle school?

Ahypothesis is: a the average squared deviations about the mean of a distribution of values b) an empirically testable statement that is an unproven supposition developed in order to explain phenomena a statement that asserts the status quo; that is, any change from what has been c) thought to be true is due to random sampling order da statement that is the opposite of the null hypothesis e) the error made by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true