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Cigarette Use A report in the Child Trends Data Base indicated that in 2000, 20.6% of twel...

Cigarette Use A report in the Child Trends Data Base indicated that in 2000, 20.6% of twelfth grade students reported daily use of cigarettes. In 2012, 9.3% of twelfth grade students reported daily use of cigarettes.

(a) Write a linear equation that relates the percent y of twelfth grade students who smoke cigarettes daily to the number x of years after 2000.


(b) Find the intercepts of the graph of your equation.


(c) Do these intercepts have meaningful interpretation?


(d) Use your equation to predict the percent for the year 2025. Is this result reasonable?

Source www.childtrendsdatabank.org

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