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College Tuition The table lists average tuition and fees in dollars at private colleges fo...

College Tuition The table lists average tuition and fees in dollars at private colleges for selected years.

Year

1995

2000

2005

2010

Cost

12,432

16,233

21,235

26,273

Source: The College Board.

(a) Make a scatterplot of the data.


(b) Find a formula in point-slope form for a linear function f that models the data.


(c) Graph the data and y = f(x) in the same xy-plane.


(d) Interpret the slope of the graph of y = f(x).


(e) Estimate the cost in 2014. Did your answers involve interpolation or extrapolation?

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