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Here’s your shmoop du jour…

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The salaries of 20 employees and the number

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of years that they worked at their boomerang company are graphed in the following plot. 

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Their love of boomerangs keeps them coming back each day.

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That… and the phenomenon of gyroscopic precession…

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Based on this plot, a person making $80,000

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a year has been working at the company for how many years?

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And here are the potential answers...

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OK, so this question asks us to read a scatter plot. Well, it certainly isn’t… pointless…

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So… let’s find the 80 grand line – it’s here.

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Scan to the right until we hit those red zit thingies. We hit ‘em about here at the Oxy 20 gap.

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Only problem is… there isn’t a single spot at which our dots cross this mark.

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Once an employee starts making $80,000 a year, their salary tends to… plateau.

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So frankly… we really can’t determine how long someone’s been boomeranging it

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up when they’re bringing home 80k a year.

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Answer D. As in, “Dedication.”

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