In: Advanced Math
according to the US census bureau, the population of the US seniors65 and older, in the year 2004 was approximately 36,300,000 people. In the year 2010, it was 40,267,984 people. the senior population was growing at an approximately constant rate during this period.
(a)use this information to express the US senior population as a function of time since the year 2000.
(b) what is slope of your function? what does this mean in the context?
(c) what would this model indicate that the US population of seniors was in the year 2000? ( The actual population in that year was approximately 34,991,753)
(d) what does this model predict the US population of seniors to be for the 2020 census? Do you think this will be an overestimate or underestimate and why?
(e) when does your model predict the US population of senior to be 45,500,000 people?