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Salaries The median salary for male workers, in thousands of dollars, for the years 1975–2006 can be modeled by the function
where x is the number of years after 1970.
- a. Find the minimum on the graph of this function between x = 10 and x = 30 and interpret it.
- b. Is the median salary found in part (a) the lowest median salary in the period 1975–2006?
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