Oil imports Crude oil and petroleum products are imported continuously by the United States. The following table and figure show the net expenditures for U.S. oil imports for selected years (in billions of dollars per year) (Source: Energy Information Administration), (a) Use n = 5 equal subdivisions and left-hand end-points to estimate the area under the graph from 2014 to 2024.
(b) What does this area represent in terms of U.S. oil imports?
Year | Billions of Dollars | |
2014 | 219.5 | |
2016 | 192.0 | |
2018 | 191.0 | |
2020 | 198.9 | |
2022 | 214.5 | |
2024 | 228.4 |
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