Joe, Marty, and Sally all decide to buy a new car for $15,000. Each one decides to pay for their car in a different way. Compare each of their stories and decide who you think made the best decision when they bought their car. Joe decided he wanted to pay cash for his car, so he saves $1,000 per month until he has enough money in the bank to buy the car. How long will it be before Joe can buy his car?

Inez has a phone card. the graph shows the number of minutes that remain on her phone card a certain number of days.

An annual marathon covers a route that has a distance of approximately 26 miles. winning times for this marathon are all over 2 hours. the following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each. earlier period 14 12 15 22 13 10 19 13 9 14 20 18 16 20 23 12 18 17 6 13 recent period 7 11 7 14 8 9 11 14 8 7 9 8 7 9 9 9 9 8 10 8 (a) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks. for more details, view how to split a stem.) minutes beyond 2 hours earlier period 0 1 2 (b) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks.) minutes beyond 2 hours recent period (c) compare the two distributions. how many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution

Rewrite so the subject can be y in the formula d=m-y/y+n