James Watches as a Customer with at Least 40 Items

question 28

Multiple Choice

James watches as a customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real "idiot" to miss the sign that indicates James's checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. James's attribution for the cause of the customer's behavior is consistent with

• A)the fundamental attribution error.
• B)drawing an illusory correlation.
• C)a self-serving bias.
• D)a defensive attribution.

Determine the nth term of an arithmetic or geometric sequence.

Calculate the partial sums of sequences.

Identify the first five terms of a given sequence.

Simplify expressions involving factorials.

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