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College Basketball: Women The following chart shows the number of NCAA women’s college basketball teams in the United States during the period 2000–2010:43
Men’s basketball teams
Year (t)
a. On average, how fast was the number of women’s college basketball teams growing over the 4-year period beginning in 2004?
b. By inspecting the graph, find the 3-year period over which the average rate of change was largest.
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