Number of Deputies 10 50 75 125 180 200 250 Number of Patrol Cars in Use 10 50 75 125 180 200 250

Patrol Cars The Beaufort County Sheriff’s office
assigns a patrol car to each of its deputy sheriffs, who
keeps the car 24 hours a day. As the population of the
county grew, the number of deputies and the number
of patrol cars also grew. The data in the following
table could describe how many patrol cars were
necessary as the number of deputies increased. Write
the function that models the relationship between the
number of deputies and the number of patrol cars.