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Personal income in billions of dollars in the United States was $12,430 in 2008 and $14,167 in 2013. Assume that the relationship between the personal income (y) and the years (x) is linear. Let t-0 represent 2000.
(a) Write a linear model for the data.
(b) Estimate the personal incomes in billions of dollars in 2012 and 2016.
(c) Use your school's library, the internet, or some other reference source to find the actual personal incomes in 2012 and 2015. How close were your estimates? The model's estimates were reasonably close to the actual personal incomes. The model's estimates were significantly different from the actual personal incomes.