Percentage of College Graduates for Americans Ages 25 and Older Male Female 35% 30.3 29.6 30% 24.4 25% 20% 18.4 15% 10% 5% 1990 2010 Year Percentage Gradua ting from College
Percentage of College Graduates for Americans Ages 25 and Older Male Female 35% 30.3 29.6 30% 24.4 25% 20% 18.4 15% 10% 5% 1990 2010 Year Percentage Gradua ting from College
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Chapter10: Statistics
Section10.6: Summarizing Categorical Data
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The bar graph shows changes in the percentage of college graduates for Americans ages 25 and older from 1990 to 2010. In 1990, 18.4% of American women ages 25 and older had graduated from college. On average, this percentage has increased by approximately 0.6 each year.
Solve, a. Write a formula for the nth term of the arithmetic sequence that models the percentage of American women ages 25 and older who had graduated from college n years after 1989.
b. Use the model from part (a) to project the percentage of American women ages 25 and older who will be college graduates by 2019.
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