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A city manager made a scatter plot of the number of retail stores in a certain city over the years. The scatter plot had a trend line with an equation of y = 11x + 12, where y is the total number of retail stores and x is the number of years since 1990. 12. When Darryl and his family moved o the city, there were 133 retail stores in the city. Use the equation to predict what year Darryl's family moved to the city.

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Answer:

2001

Explanation:

133 = 11x + 12

121 = 11x

x = 11

1990 + 11 years = 2001

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