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 codysmom99
Oct 25, 2009, 08:19 PM
More people are staying single longer in the US. 
1n 1990 , the number of never married adults, age 15 and over, was 52.6 million.
By 2000, it was 59.9 million.
 
Assume the data increase lineraly, and write an equation that defines a linear function for this data.  Let x represent the number of years since 1990.
 Nhatkiem
Oct 25, 2009, 09:39 PM
More people are staying single longer in the US. 
1n 1990 , the number of never married adults, age 15 and over, was 52.6 million.
By 2000, it was 59.9 million.
 
Assume the data increase lineraly, and write an equation that defines a linear function for this data.  Let x represent the number of years since 1990.
 
Use the form
 
\frac{y_0-y_1}{x_0-x_1}=m to find the slope, where y0,y1 represents the number of adults, and x0, x1 represent the years since 1990.
 
After minding m, choose a point and plug it into the form
 
y=mx+b
 morgaine300
Oct 25, 2009, 10:00 PM
This is exactly the same as your other problem:
https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/math-sciences/how-do-write-linear-cost-function-409322.html
 
Learn how to do one.  Then try to apply it to the others.
 
(It's a silly problem anyway.  Without knowing it as a percent of total population, it means absolutely nothing.  Seems illogical for a math problem to be illogical.)