The linear formula for the sequence whose terms represent the percentage of americans who smoke n years after 2014 is:

<h3>What is a linear function?</h3>
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
.
Then, the <em>equation </em>is:


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Expanding the left side gives

which gives two solutions,

and

. But if

, then

, but this number isn't real, so

is an extraneous solution. Meanwhile if

, you get

, so this solution is correct.
"Potential solutions" might refer to both possibilities, but there is only one actual (real) solution.
Answer:38
Step-by-step explanation:
if there were 253 children and 6 buses and f 25 children had to go by car then,
253-25=228
228/6=38
It can be a fraction, a decimal, a mixed number, or any irrational number.