From 1950 through 2005, the per capita consumption C of cigarettes by Americans (age 18 and older) can be modeled by C = 3565.0 + 60.30t − 1.783t2, 0 ≤ t ≤ 55, where t is the year, with t = 0 corresponding to 1950. In 2005, the U.S. population (age 18 and over) was 296,329,000. Of those, about 59,858,458 were smokers. What was the average annual cigarette consumption per smoker in 2005? What was the average daily cigarette consumption per smoker?
Continuous Probability Distributions
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From 1950 through 2005, the per capita consumption C of cigarettes by Americans (age 18 and older) can be modeled by
where t is the year, with t = 0 corresponding to 1950.
- In 2005, the U.S. population (age 18 and over) was 296,329,000. Of those, about 59,858,458 were smokers. What was the average annual cigarette consumption per smoker in 2005?
- What was the average daily cigarette consumption per smoker?
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