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Military The number of active-duty U.S. Navy personnel (in thousands) is given by y = −5.6...

Military The number of active-duty U.S. Navy personnel (in thousands) is given by y = −5.686x + 676.173, and the number of active-duty U.S. Air Force personnel is given by y = −11.997x + 847.529, where x is the number of years after 1960.

a. Use graphical methods to find the year in which the number of Navy personnel reached the number of Air Force personnel.


b. How many were in each service when the numbers of personnel were equal?

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