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Advanced Engineering Mathematics

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ISBN:9780470458365

Author:Erwin Kreyszig

Publisher:Erwin Kreyszig

Chapter2: Second-order Linear Odes

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The bar graph shows that as costs changed over the decades,
Americans devoted less of their budget to groceries and more to
health care. Find a linear function in slope-intercept form that models the given description. Each function should model the percentage of total spending, p(x), by Americans x years after 1950.

"In 1950, Americans spent 22% of their budget on food. This has decreased at an average rate of approximately 0.25% per year since then."

Percentage of Total Spending in the
United States on Food and Health Care
24%
22%
21%
18%
16%
16%
15%
13%
12%
10%
9%
7%
7%
6%
3%
3%
Food
Health Care
Perentage of Total Spending

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