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Tuition Costs Average annual tuition and fees for in-state students at public four-year colleges are shown in the table for selected years and graphed as ordered pairs of points, where
Tuition and Fees | |
Year | Cost (in dollars) |
2005 | 5492 |
2006 | 5804 |
2007 | 6191 |
2008 | 6591 |
2009 | 7050 |
2010 | 7605 |
Source: Trends in College Pricing2010, The College Board.
(a) Use the points from the years 2005 and 2010 to find a linear function f that models the data.
(b) Use the function from part (a) to estimate the cost of tuition and fees, to the nearest dollar, at public four-year colleges in 2012.
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