Fitting Linear Models to Data · Review Exercise 85

Consider this scenario: The population of a city increased steadily over a ten-year span. The following ordered pairs show the population and the year over the ten-year span (population, year) for specific recorded years:

$(\text{3},\text{600},\text{2000});(\text{4},\text{000},\text{2001});(\text{4},\text{700},\text{2003});(\text{6},\text{000},\text{2006})$

Predict when the population will hit 12,000.

OpenStax, Precalculus 2e · §2.4 Fitting Linear Models to Data · Review Exercise 85