As of July 1997: War War A War B War C Veterans War War A War B As of May 2001: 0 1,269 854,049 Veterans 0 146 Children 25 7,499 20,772 Children 20 5,610 Spouses 4 56,268 308,875 Spouses 3 24,573

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A department keeps records of surviving veterans, their surviving dependent children, and surviving spouses. The tables below show, as of July 1997 and May 2001, the number surviving for War A, War B, and War C.
As of July 1997:
War
War A
War B
War C
War
Veterans
As of May 2001:
War A
War B
War C
0
1,269
854,049
Veterans
0
146
647,202
Children
25
7,499
20,772
Children
20
5,610
18,701
Spouses
4
56,268
308,875
Spouses
3
24,573
275,793
Use matrices to represent the information in these tables and use a matrix operation to find the decrease, from 1997 to 2001, in each category. (Trivia note: The last Revolutionary War dependent died in 1911 at the age of 90. The last Civil War veteran died in 1958 at
the age of 112.)
Transcribed Image Text:A department keeps records of surviving veterans, their surviving dependent children, and surviving spouses. The tables below show, as of July 1997 and May 2001, the number surviving for War A, War B, and War C. As of July 1997: War War A War B War C War Veterans As of May 2001: War A War B War C 0 1,269 854,049 Veterans 0 146 647,202 Children 25 7,499 20,772 Children 20 5,610 18,701 Spouses 4 56,268 308,875 Spouses 3 24,573 275,793 Use matrices to represent the information in these tables and use a matrix operation to find the decrease, from 1997 to 2001, in each category. (Trivia note: The last Revolutionary War dependent died in 1911 at the age of 90. The last Civil War veteran died in 1958 at the age of 112.)
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