To the nearest billion, estimate the retails sales in the U. S. in 2012.  _______billions of dollars.  Use the equation to find the year in which retails sales will be $246 billion. _________

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The following table shows retail sales in drug stores in billions of dollars in the U.S. for years since 1995.

Year Retail Sales
0 85.851
3 108.426
6 141.781
9 169.256
12 202.297
15 222.266



Let yy be the retails sales in billions of dollars in xx years since 1995. A linear model for the data is y=9.44x+84.182y=9.44x+84.182.



To the nearest billion, estimate the retails sales in the U. S. in 2012.  _______billions of dollars.


 Use the equation to find the year in which retails sales will be $246 billion. _________

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