Question: Really bad at doing these estimates. Could use some assistance. The percentages of police officers who are women are listed in the table for various
Really bad at doing these estimates. Could use some assistance.

The percentages of police officers who are women are listed in the table for various city populations. City Population City Population Used to Represent City Population (in thousands thousands) Percent 0-9.999 5 8.3 10-24.999 17.5 7.5 25-49.999 37.5 3.5 50-99.999 75 9.4 100-249.999 175 11.7 250 or more 300 17 Source: FBI Uniform Crime Report Let f(n) be the percentage of police officers who are women in cities with populations of n thousand. A model of the situation is f(n) = 0.00006n + 0.012n + 7.884. a. Use a graphing calculator to draw the graph of the model and, in the same viewing window, the scattergram of the data. Does the model fit the data well? O The function is not a good model for the data The function is a good model for the data. b. Glen Ellyn, Illinois, has a population of 28.68 thousand. Estimate the percentage of police officers in Glen Ellyn who are women. Round to one decimal place. % c. Find n when f(n) = 10. Round to one decimal place. n = d. Interpret part c. in the context of women police officers and population. (You may want to answer this question on scratch paper prior to looking at the choices.) 10% of police officers are women in cities with populations of about 112.8 thousand #
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