Head Start participants The function f given by approximates the total numbe...

Head Start participants

The function f given by

approximates the total number of preschool children participating in the government program Head Start between 1966 and 2005, where x = 0corresponds to the year 1966.

(a) Graph f on the interval [0, 40]. Discuss how the number of participants has changed between 1966 and 2005.

(b) Approximate the number of children enrolled in 1986.

(c) Estimate graphically the years in which there were 500,000 children enrolled in Head Start.