Annual Federal Spending on Medicare Increased More or Less Linearly

question 18

Multiple Choice

Annual federal spending on Medicare increased more or less linearly from $65 billion in 1973 to $128 billion in 1994. Use these data to express , the annual spending on Medicare (in billions of dollars) , as a linear function of , the number of years since 1973.

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