Durant and Westbrook are playing a three-point challenge game to improve long distance shooting. Each time each of them makes a basket, 3 points are added to their respective scores. Durant has 18 points and Westbrook has 12 points. Which of the following options has the pair of explicit formulas that represents the number of points for each player as an arithmetic sequence? A: Durant: 18 +(n-1)(3)
B: Durant: 18-(n-1)(3)
C: Durant 18+(n-3)
D: Durant 18+3n

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Astudy was interested in determining if eating milk chocolate lowered someone's cholesterol levels. ten people's cholesterol was measured. then, each of these individuals were told to eat 100g of milk chocolate every day and to eat as they normally did. after two weeks, their cholesterol levels were measured again. is there evidence to support that their cholesterol levels went down? how should we write the alternative hypothesis? (mud = the population mean difference= before - after)a. ha: mud = 0b. ha: mud > 0c. ha: mud < 0d. ha: mud does not equal 0