Women in the Workforce The number of women in the workforce (in millions) for selected yea...

Women in the Workforce The number of women in the workforce (in millions) for selected years from 1890 to 2010 is shown in the following figure.

a. Would the data in the scatter plot be modeled well by a linear function? Why or why not?

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b. The number of women in the workforce was 10.519 million in 1930 and 16.443 million in 1950. What is the average rate of change in the number of women in the workforce during this period?

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c. If the number of women in the workforce was 16.443 million in 1950 and 75.500 million in 2010, what is the average rate of change in the number of women in the workforce during this period?

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d. Is it reasonable that these two average rates of change are different? How can you tell this from the graph?