Assignment:
The number of violent crimes reported in the U.S. in 1995 was 1,798,790, and decreased to 1,682,280 in 1996. Assume that the function that relates the number of violent crimes as the dependent variable, with the year that the number of crimes occurred as the independent variable, is linear.
- Write an equation for the line.
- If this equation were valid forever, how many years would it take for violent crime to disappear?
- Is the assumption that the function is linear a reasonable assumption? Explain.
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.