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Expenditures for U.S. Health Care The cost per person per year for health care, with proje...

Expenditures for U.S. Health Care The cost per person per year for health care, with projections to 2018, is shown in the following table.

Year

$ per Person

Year

$ per Person

2000

4789

2010

8465

2002

5563

2012

9275

2004

6331

2014

10,289

2006

7091

2016

11,520

2008

7826

2018

12,994

(Source: U.S. Medicare and Medicaid Services)

a. Let x represent the number of years after 2000 and y represent the annual cost and sketch the scatter plot of the data.


b. Graph the function y = 1.149x3 − 21.564x2 + 473.575x + 4749.394 on the same axes as the scatter plot.


c. Is the function a good visual fit to the data?

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