According to a Gallup poll, in 2012 almost a third of Americans named Iran their country’s greatest enemy. That number matched public sentiment in the United States toward Saddam Hussein’s Iraq at the time of the 2003 invasion. The line graphs show the percentage of Americans who considered either Iraq or Iran their country’s greatest enemy from 2001 through 2012. Use this information to solve Exercises 49-50.
a. Find an estimate for the percentage of Americans who considered Iran their country’s greatest enemy in 2001.
b. Between which two years did the percentage of Americans who considered Iran their country’s greatest enemy increase at the greatest rate?
c. In which year did 12% of Americans consider Iran their country’s greatest enemy?
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