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Outpatient Visits According to the data from the American Hospital Association, the rate of change in the number of hospital outpatient visits, in millions, in the United States each year from 1980 to the present can be approximated by
a. Using the fact that in the 1980 there were
b. Use the answer to part a to forecast the number of outpatient visits in the year 2015.
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