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Life Science: incidence of breast cancer. The following graph approximates the incidence of breast cancer y, per 100,000 women, as a function of age x, where x represents ages 25 to 102.
a. What is the incidence of breast cancer in 40-yr-old women?
b. For what ages is the incidence of breast cancer about 400 per 100,000 women?
c. Examine the graph and try to determine the age at which the largest incidence of breast cancer occurs.
d. What difficulty do you have making this determination?
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