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In 2015, there were 14.100 students at college A. With a projected enrolment increase of 1500 students per year. In the same year, there were 41,700 students at college B, with a projected enrolment decline of 800 students per year.
a. Let x represent the number of years after 2015. Write, but do not solve, an equation that can be used to find how many years after 2015 the colleges will have the same enrolment.
b. The following table is based on your equation in part (a). Y1 represents one side of the equation and Y2 represents the other side of the questions.. In which year will the year will the colleges have the same enrolment? What will be the enrolment in each college at that time?
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