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Bankruptcies The table lists the number of bankruptcies filed in thousands for selected ye...

Bankruptcies The table lists the number of bankruptcies filed in thousands for selected years.

Year

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Bankruptcie s

160

220

290

380

425

Source: Administrative Office of the United States.

(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 number of bankruptcies in 2014. Did your answer involve interpolation or extrapolation?

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