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Total DVD and Blu-ray disc sales in 2009 were $8.72 billion. For the purposes of this problem, you will combine DVD and Blue-ray disk sales into one category of DVD sales. A study by In-Stat predicted that "physical disc sales will decline by $4.7 billion by 2014," and that "streaming, on the other hand, should grow from its current $2.2 billion to $6.3 billion over the same time period (2009–2014)
a. What is the slope, including units, of the model for DVD sales?
Write a statement interpreting the meaning of the slope in the context of the problem.
b. Write an equation that represents the linear model for DVD sales. Let D = the sales of DVDs in billions of dollars, and t = the number of years after 2009.
c. What is the slope, including units, of the model for streaming videos?
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