Chapter 2.1, Problem 63E

National health care Using data from 2002 and

With projections to 2024, total annual expenditures

For national health care (in billions of dollars )can be

Described by

$E=4.61x^2+43.4x+1620$

Where $x$ is the number of years past 2000(Source: U.S.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). If the

Pattern indicated by this equation remains valid, when

Does the model predict these expenditures will reach

$\$7071$ billion?