SOLUTION: Assume the number of U.S. households with land-line phones stood at 45 million at the beginning of 2014 and was projected to decline at the rate of 1.5 million households per year

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Question 1196357: Assume the number of U.S. households with land-line phones stood at 45 million at the beginning of 2014 and was projected to decline at the rate of 1.5 million households per year for the next 8 years.
Find a linear function f giving the projected U.S. land-line phone households (in millions in x year ), where x =0 corresponds to the beginning of 2014.
f (x) =

What is the projected number of U.S. land-line phone households at the beginning of 2019?
Answer =
million households
Answer by josgarithmetic(39613) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Point (0,45) and slope -1.5, and question is for point (5,v).