Chapter 5.4, Problem 245E

[T] The following table provides hypothetical data regarding the level of service for a certain highway.

Highway Speed Range (mph)	Vehicles per Hour per Lane	Density Range (vehicles/ mi)
>60	< 600	< 10
60-57	600-1000	10-20
57-54	1000-1500	20-30
54-46	1500-1900	30-45
46-30	1900-2100	45-70
<30	Unstable	70-200

Table 5.10

1. Plot vehicles per hour per lane on the x-axis and highway speed on the y-axis.

Compute the average decrease in speed (in miles per hour) per unit increase in congestion (vehicles per hour per lane) as the latter increases from 600 to 1000, from 1000 to 1500, and from 1500 to 2100. Does the decrease in miles per hour depend linearly on the increase in vehicles per hour per lane?

Plot minutes per mile (50 times the reciprocal of miles per hour) as a function of vehicles per hour per lane. Is this function linear?

For the next two exercises use the data in the following table, which displays bald eagle populations from 1963 to 2000 in the continental United States.

Year	Population of Breeding Pairs of Bald Eagles
1963	487
1974	791
1981	1188
1986	1875
19921996	3749
5094
2000	6471

Table 5.11 Population of Breeding Bald Eagle Pairs Source: http://www.fws.gov/Midwest/eagle/ population/chtofprs.html.