The population center of the 48 contiguous states of the United States is the point where a flat, rigid map of the contiguous states would balance if the location of each person was represented on the map by a weight of equal measure. In 1790, the population center was 23 miles east of Baltimore, Maryland. By 1990, the center had shifted about 800 miles west and 100 miles south to a point in southeast Missouri. To study this shifting population, the U.S. Census Bureau divides the states into four regions as shown in the figure. Problems 69 and 70 deal with population shifts among these regions.
Population shifts. Table 3 gives the percentage of the U.S. population living in the south region during the indicated years.
The following transition matrix
(A) Let
(B) Construct a new table comparing the results from part (A) with the data in Table 4.
(C) According to this transition matrix, what percentage of the population will live in the northeast region in the long run?
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