The numbers of married-couple households (in millions) and the percentages of households that are married-couple households are shown in Table 24 for various years. Let p be the percentage of households that are married-couple house- holds at t years since 2000.
a. Construct a scatterplot.
b. Graph the model p = -0.24t + 52.19 on the scatterplot. Does it come close to most of the data points?
c. What is the slope? What does it mean in this situation?
d. In which years were less than 52% of households married- couple households?

e. Although the number of married-couple households in- creased from 2003 to 2014, the percentage of households that were married-couple households decreased. Explain how this is possible.

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Table 24 Married-Couple Households Number of Married-Couple Households millions Percentage of Households That Are Married-Couple Households Year 2003 2005 2008 2010 2014 57.3 58.0 58.3 584 619 51.5 51.2 50.0 49.7 49.0