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Alzheimer’s Disease Partially because of American living longer, the number with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia is projected to grow each year. The table below gives the millions of U.S. citizen with Alzheimer’s from 2000 and projected to 2050.
(Source: National Academy on an Aging Society)
a. Create a
b. Find a quadratic function that models this data. Report the model with four significant digits.
c. Graph the data and the model on the same axes, and comment on the fit.
d. How many Americans does the model predict will have Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia 2056?
e. In what year after 2000 does the model predict that 10.2 million Americans will have Alzheimer’s or other dementia?
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