Raul is building a house. On day 1, he uses 3 bags of cement. On each of the following 3 days, he uses 3 times the number of bags used the previous day. How many bags of cement does he use in the last 3 days?

The stem-and-leaf plot shows the heights in centimeters of teddy bear sunflowers grown in two different types of soil. soil a soil b 5 9 5 2 1 1 6 3 9 5 1 0 7 0 2 3 6 7 8 2 1 8 3 0 9 key: 9|6 means 69 key: 5|8 means 58 calculate the mean of each data set. calculate the mean absolute deviation (mad) of each data set. which set is more variable? how do you know?