Spending on Corrections in the 1990s Repeat Exercise 45, this time choosin...

Spending on Corrections in the 1990s Repeat Exercise 45, this time choosing from the following functions:

(A) S(t) = 16 + 2t

Reference:

Spending on Corrections in the 1990s The following table shows the annual spending by all states in the United States on corrections (t = 0 represents the year 1990):

a. Which of the following functions best fits the given data? (Warning: None of them fits exactly, but one fits more closely than the others.) HINT [See Example 5.]

(A) S(t) = −0.2 + t + 16

(B) S(t) = 0.2 + t + 16

(C) S(t) = t + 16

b. Use your answer to part (a) to “predict” spending on corrections in 1998, assuming that the trend continued.