Question

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there were 13.2 million undergraduate students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in Fall 2000. In Fall 2014, the enrollment was 17.3 million students. Assuming this relationship grows linearly, write a linear function that models the undergraduate enrollment in postsecondary institutions

x years after 2000

Answer 1

13.2 + 0.292X = Y

Explanation:

Given that, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, there were 13.2 million undergraduate students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in Fall 2000, while in Fall 2014, the enrollment was 17.3 million students, assuming this relationship grows linearly, a linear function that models the undergraduate enrollment in postsecondary institutions X years after 2000 would be carried out as follows:

2014-2000 = 14

17.3 - 13.2 = 4.1

4.1 / 14 = 0.292

Thus, each year 292,000 new students are enrolled in postsecondary institutions. Therefore, the function that determines what is requested would be the following:

13.2 + 0.292X = Y