The linear formula for the sequence whose terms represent the percentage of americans who smoke n years after 2014 is:
A linear function is modeled by:
In which:
- m is the slope, which is the rate of change, that is, by how much y changes when x changes by 1.
- b is the y-intercept, which is the value of y when x = 0, and for a time-dependent function, can also be interpreted as the initial value.
In this problem:
- The percentage of smokers in 2014 was 16.7%, hence the initial value is
- The percentage is decreasing by 5.6% each year, hence the slope is
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Then, the <em>equation </em>is:
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