In 1996 there were 30 million people worldwide who had been infected with a particular disease. At that time the infection rate was 3.2 million people per year.

(a) Write a formula for a linear function that models the total number of people in millions who were infected with the particular disease x years after 1996.

(b) Estimate the number of people who may have been infected by the year 2017.

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