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Passenger Travel The table shows the number of miles (in trillions) traveled by passengers...

Passenger Travel The table shows the number of miles (in trillions) traveled by passengers of all types x years after 1970.

Year (1970 ↔ 0)

 0)

0

10

20

30

40

Miles (trillions)

2.2

2.8

3.7

4.7

5.5

Source: Department of Transportation.

(a) Make a scatterplot of the data. Predict whether the correlation coefficient will be positive or negative.


(b) Use least-squares regression to find f(x) = ax + b so that f models the data.


(c) Graph f and the data. Interpret the slope.


(d) Predict the number of passenger miles in 2015.

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