Over the past 40 years, the percentage of homes in the United States with smoke detectorshas risen steadily and has plateaued at about 96% (national fire Protection associationwebsite, January, 2015). With this increase in the use of home smoke detectors, what hashappened to the death rate from home fires? The DATAfile SmokeDetectors contains17 years of data on the estimated percentage of homes with smoke detectors and the estimated home fire deaths per million of population.a. Do you expect a positive or negative relationship between smoke detector use anddeaths from home fires? Why or why not?

Over the past 40 years, the percentage of homes in the United States with smoke detectorshas risen steadily and has plateaued at about 96% (national fire Protection associationwebsite, January, 2015). With this increase in the use of home smoke detectors, what hashappened to the death rate from home fires? The DATAfile SmokeDetectors contains17 years of data on the estimated percentage of homes with smoke detectors and the estimated home fire deaths per million of population.a. Do you expect a positive or negative relationship between smoke detector use anddeaths from home fires? Why or why not?

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter9: Quadratic Functions And Equations

Section9.8: Analyzing Functions With Successive Differences

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