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According the U.S. Department of Justice, the following table gives the number (in thousan...

According the U.S. Department of Justice, the following table gives the number (in thousands) of violent crimes committed in the given years.

Table

Year

Crimes

2004

1360

2005

1391

2006

1418

2007

1408

2008

1393

2009

1326

2010

1246

(a) Let x = 4 correspond to the year 2004. Find a quadratic function f(x) = a(xh)2 + k that models these data using (6, 1418) as the vertex and the data for 2009.


(b) Estimate the number of violent crimes in 2012.

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