Using the given table:
a) the average rate of change is 32.5 jobs/year.
b) the average rate of change is 12.5 jobs/year.
<h3>How to find the average rate of change?</h3>
For a function f(x), the average rate of change on an interval [a, b] is:
a) The average rate of change between 1997 and 1999 is:
So the average rate of change is 32.5 jobs/year.
b) Now the interval is 1999 to 2001.
The rate this time is:
So the average rate of change is 12.5 jobs/year.
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