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Hours Worked in Europe The table lists the annual hours worked by the average worker in Eu...

Hours Worked in Europe The table lists the annual hours worked by the average worker in Europe for selected years.

Year

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

Hours

2000

1860

1750

1690

1590

Source: Gallup Research.

(a) Let x represent the number of years after 1970. Find a formula in slope-intercept form for a linear function f that models the data.


(b) Interpret the slope of the graph of y = f(x).


(c) Estimate the annual hours worked in 2014.

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