document.write( "Question 193304: Here's a word problem I bet you don't see very often. I don't understand the number of gun deaths in this country anyway, never mind how to predict them in an algebra problem. Please, I really need help on this one. Than-x
\n" ); document.write( "The equation y=-1777x+27,153 can be used to predict the number of gun deaths in the United States x years after 2000, that is, x=0 corresponds to 2000, x=3 corresponds to 2003, x=6 corresponds to 2006 and so on. Predict the number of gun deaths in 2006 and 2009. In what year will the number of gun deaths be 7606?
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The equation y=-1777x+27,153 can be used to predict the number of gun deaths in the United States x years after 2000, that is, x=0 corresponds to 2000, x=3 corresponds to 2003, x=6 corresponds to 2006 and so on. Predict the number of gun deaths in 2006 and 2009. In what year will the number of gun deaths be 7606?
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\n" ); document.write( "The number of deaths, y, is expressed as a function of year, x.
\n" ); document.write( "y = f(x) = -1777x + 27153
\n" ); document.write( "At x = 6:
\n" ); document.write( "y = -1777*6 + 27153
\n" ); document.write( "y = 16491 in 2006
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\n" ); document.write( "At x = 9:
\n" ); document.write( "y = -1777*9 + 27153
\n" ); document.write( "y = 11160 in 2009
\n" ); document.write( "At x = 7606:
\n" ); document.write( "y = -5606*1777 = 27153
\n" ); document.write( "y = -9961862 + 27153
\n" ); document.write( "y = -9934709 (a negative # in 7606)
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