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Business The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that in 1990, 1.1 million people wo...

Business The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that in 1990, 1.1 million people worked in the truck transportation industry. In 2006, the number was 1.4 million.

(a) Find a linear equation giving the number of employees in the truck transportation industry in terms of x, the number of years since 1990.


(b) Assuming the equation remains valid in the future, in what year will there be 1.9 million employees in the truck transportation industry?

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