Deepwater Horizon Cleanup Costs. The following table represents the amount of money disbursed by BP to a random sample of six Florida counties, for cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in millions of dollars.10 Use the following information for Exercises 47–49.
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County | Cleanup costs ($ millions) |
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Broward | 0.85 |
Escambia | 0.70 |
Franklin | 0.50 |
Pinellas | 1.15 |
Santa Rosa | 0.50 |
Walton | 1.35 |
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49.What if we changed to some larger value (though still smaller than )? Otherwise, everything else remains unchanged. Describe how this change would affect the following, if at all:
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(a) Decrease (b) Stay the same (c) Increase (d) Depends on new value of (e) Stay the same (f) Depends on new value of