Question

Police know the exact distance that it takes a car to stop at 80, 100, and 120 miles per hour. However at a crash scene, the police find skid marks longer than those left at any known speed. They use a graph to predict the car's speed as approximately 137 miles per hour. Predicting a value or quantity beyond a known data range, based on a trend in the data, is

Answer 1

Answer – Extrapolation

 

Extrapolation is the estimation of a value or quantity beyond a known data range based on a trend in the data (in other words, deducing unknown values from trends in the known data). While extrapolating, one would usually estimate the unknown data with the presumption that existing trends in the known data will continue or that a current method will remain applicable.