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Pasta Imports in the 90s During the period 1990–2001, U.S. imports of past...

Pasta Imports in the 90s During the period 1990–2001, U.S. imports of pasta increased from 290 million pounds in 1990 (t=. 0) by an average of 40 million pounds/year.

a. Use this information to express y, the annual U.S. imports of pasta (in millions of pounds), as a linear function of t, the number of years since 1990.

b. Use your model to estimate U.S. pasta imports in 2005, assuming the import trend continued.

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