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4.3 Exercise 119

Avg difficulty 2.5

Determine whether the lines given by the equations below are parallel, perpendicular, or neither parallel nor perpendicular.

A town’s population increases at a constant rate. In 2010 the population was 65,000. By 2012 the population had increased to 90,000. Assuming this trend continues, predict the population in 2018.

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 4.3 Fitting Linear Models to Data, exercise 119

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