Chapter 2.5, Problem 1CP

The following table gives the Social Security Trust Fund balance (in billions of dollars) for selected years from $2000$ and projected to $2030$.

(1) Make a scatter plot of the data with $x$ as the number of years past $1995$.

$\begin{array}{llllllll}Year\hfill & 2000\hfill & 2005\hfill & 2010\hfill & 2015\hfill & 2020\hfill & 2025\hfill & 2030\hfill \\ Balance\hfill & \text{1049}\text{.4}\hfill & \text{1858}\text{.7}\hfill & 2609.0\hfill & 2682.6\hfill & 2440.5\hfill & 1866.5\hfill & 777.3\hfill \end{array}$

Source: Social Security Administration

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