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  • Oct 25, 2009, 08:19 PM
    codysmom99
    Word problems
    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.
  • Oct 25, 2009, 09:39 PM
    Nhatkiem
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    Originally Posted by codysmom99 View Post
    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

    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

  • Oct 25, 2009, 10:00 PM
    morgaine300

    This is exactly the same as your other problem:
    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/math-s...on-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.)

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