Report models to three decimal places unless otherwise specified. Use unrounded models to...

Report models to three decimal places unless otherwise specified. Use unrounded models to graph and calculate unless otherwise specified.

Women in the Workforce The number of women in the workforce for selected years from 1930 through 2015 is shown in the following figures.

a. Do the points on the graph in the figure define the number of working women as a discrete or continuous function of the year?

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b. Does the graph of y = W(x) shown in the figure define the number of working women as a discrete or continuous function of the year?

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c. Would the data in the scatter plot be better modeled by a linear function than by the nonlinear function y = W(x)? Why or why not?