according to the US census bureau, the population of the USseniors65 and older, in the year 2004 was approximately 36,300,000people. In the year 2010, it was 40,267,984 people. the seniorpopulation was growing at an approximately constant rate duringthis period.
(a)use this information to express the US senior population as afunction of time since the year 2000.
(b) what is slope of your function? what does this mean in thecontext?
(c) what would this model indicate that the US population ofseniors was in the year 2000? ( The actual population in that yearwas approximately 34,991,753)
(d) what does this model predict the US population of seniors tobe for the 2020 census? Do you think this will be an overestimateor underestimate and why?
(e) when does your model predict the US population of senior tobe 45,500,000 people?
