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LINEAR EQUATIONS
AND FUNCTIONS

 How can you predict membership

enrollments for an organization?

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APPLICATION: Youth Service

 City Year is a national youth

service program that began
with 57 members in Boston
in 1989. The organization has
expanded since then and
currently has sites in cities
across the country.

Think & Discuss

City Year Membership
y
1000
Enrollment

800
600
400
200
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 t
Years since 1989

1. What trend do you see in the membership

enrollment for City Year?
2. Based on the graph, how can you predict
future membership enrollments?

Learn More About It

You will predict the number of members
in City Year in 2010 in Exercises 24 and 25
on p. 105.
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APPLICATION LINK Visit www.mcdougallittell.com
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for more information about youth service.

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