A linear model that approximates average life-expectancy is y = 0.29t + 65.36, where y is the average life-expectancy and t is the year the person was born and t = 0 is 1950 (t is measured in years). This model has a domain −30≤t≤40−30≤t≤40. For the model y = 0.29t + 65.36, what is the slope and what does it tell you about the life-expectancy of a child in relation to the year the child was born? For the model y = 0.29t + 65.36, what is the y-intercept and what does it tell you about the life-expectancy of a child (at birth)? Using this model, predict the life-expectancy in 2000, 2010, and 2100.

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A linear model that approximates average life-expectancy is y = 0.29t + 65.36, where y is the average life-expectancy and t is the year the person was born and t = 0 is 1950 (t is measured in years). This model has a domain −30≤t≤40−30≤t≤40.

  1. For the model y = 0.29t + 65.36, what is the slope and what does it tell you about the life-expectancy of a child in relation to the year the child was born?
  2. For the model y = 0.29t + 65.36, what is the y-intercept and what does it tell you about the life-expectancy of a child (at birth)?
  3. Using this model, predict the life-expectancy in 2000, 2010, and 2100.
  4. Are the answers to the previous problem reasonable? What cautions would you give when using a mathematical model?
  5. According to the model, when will the life-expectancy of a child be 80, 100, and 0 ?

 the slope means that each year life expectance is going up by ------   each year.
The yy intercept means that in 1950 life expectance was------  years.
  The x-intercept means that life expectancy was--------    in the year --------   . Note that this answer is unrealistic.

 

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