The following table gives the percent of the US population living in urban areas as a function

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The following table gives the percent of the US population living in urban areas as a function of year.

(a) Find the average rate of change of the percent of the population living in urban areas between 1890 and 1990.

(b) Estimate the rate at which this percent is increasing for the year 1990.

(c) Estimate the rate of change of this function for the year 1830 and explain what it is telling you.

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Applied Calculus

ISBN: 9781119275565

6th Edition

Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, Sheldon P. Gordon, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Andrew Pasquale

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