Question #6402688Single Choice

Math

Question

Questions 21 and 22 refer to the following information.
Between 1985 and 2003, data were collected every three years on the amount of plastic produced annually in the United States, in billions of pounds. The graph below shows the data and a line of best fit. The equation of the line of best fit is

, where x is the number of years since 1985 and y is the amount of plastic produced annually, in billions of pounds.

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Which of the following is the best interpretation of the number 3.39 in the context of the problem?

Options

The amount of plastic, in billions of pounds, produced in the United States during the year 1985.

The number of years it took the United States to produce 1 billion pounds of plastic

The average annual plastic production, in billions of pounds, in the United States from 1985 to 2003

The average annual increase, in billions of pounds, of plastic produced per year in the United States from 1985 to 2003

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