Question

Employee annual wages at a plant rose steadily, but very gradually, from one year to the next during one 5-year period. The factory owner wants to show that worker's wages are rising rapidly. Examine the following charts and decide which graph the factory owner would want to use and why.

​a. The employee representative would want to use Graph B to show how much the employee wages have gained over the 5-year period.
b. The employee representative would want to use Graph B to show the decrease in slope.
c. The employee representative would want to use Graph A to show that wages have been a constant level doe the past 5-year period.
d. The employee representative would want to use Graph A to show that wages are rising minimally because Graph A appears to show the wages increasing at a much slower rate than Graph B.

Answer 1

Answer: The factory owner would want to use Graph B to show the rapid rise in his employees wages because Graph B shows greater increase in slope

Step-by-step explanation:

The question and the options are mismatched. Answer to the question is given above.

The factory owner would like to show that worker's wages are rising rapidly even though they are not.

The factory owner's best bet therefore is to use Graph B because it has a greater slope which might fool people into believing that the wage rates are rising rapidly which is what led to the greater increase in slope size.

The options most probably allude to a question asking what graph an employee representative would use to show that the wages are not increasing rapidly and the answer to that would be option D because graph A has a smaller slope.