The Landlord's Favorite Place to Buy Shrimp in New Orleans

question 68

Multiple Choice

The landlord's favorite place to buy shrimp in New Orleans was the Cajun Seafood market on Claiborne and he did not hesitate to stock up on shrimp when he dropped by the shotgun double house he bought as an investment a few years ago. Sadly, it was 685 miles one way to visit the property and even though gas was available at $1.88 per gallon and the car achieved 25 miles per gallon, it was an expensive and lengthy trip. Therefore he bought the cheapest plane tickets he could muster at $299 round trip and packed a cooler with $12 worth of ice. The shrimp were a bargain at $7.99 per pound for jumbos and he always tried to fit 35 pounds of the crustaceans in the cooler. What is the landed cost of a pound of shrimp?

• A)$11.28
• B)$16.88
• C)$9.80
• D)$14.78

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Definitions:

Negative Correlation

An interdependence between two variables marked by the rise of one and the decline of the other.

Scatterplot

A type of graph that shows the relationship between two continuous variables by plotting their values as coordinates on a two-dimensional plane.

Weak Relationship

Refers to a situation where the correlation between two variables is low, indicating that they have little association with each other.

Correlation

A measure of the relationship between two or more variables; the degree to which they change together.