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a country's population in 1990 was 134 million in 2000 it was 139 million estimate the population in 2014

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To estimate the population in 2014, we need to assume that the relation is linear that is the points from 1990 to 2014 forms a straight line. It will have the equation of the form y=mx + b. For this case, b would be zero since at year 0, the population is assumed to be zero. We need to calculate the slope as follows:

m = (139 million - 134 million ) / 2000 - 1990 = 500000

The equation would be:

y = 500000x

Therefore, the population in the year 2014 would be 1007 million.
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