Remainder Round all answers to two decimal places otherwise indicated.
College Enrollment This is a continuation of Exercise 9. We use the data in the college enrolment table that appears in Exercise 9.
a. Find the equation of the regression line model for college enrolment as a function of time, and add its graph to the data plot made in Exercise 9.
b. Explain the meaning of the slope of the line you found in part a.
c. Express, using functional notation, the enrolment in American private colleges in2010, and then estimate that value.
d. Enrollment in American private colleges in 2013 was 5.74 million. Does it appear that the trend established in the mid-2000s was valid in 2013?
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