Is -2^2 solved a positive number?

Which of those sequences is a geometric sequence

2people are trying different phones to see which one has the better talk time. chatlong has an average of 18 hours with a standard deviation of 2 hours and talk-a-lot has an average of 20 hours with a standard deviation of 3. the two people who tested their phones both got 20 hours of use on their phones. for the z-scores i got 1 for the chatlong company and 0 for talk-a-lot. what is the percentile for each z-score?

Jalen charges $25.50 for every 3 hours of yard work he does for his neighbors. ralph charges $34 for every 4 hours of work that he does. who charges less? opinions: 1.they charge the same amount 2.jalen 3.ralph