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Stacy has a credit card payment that has been increasing recently each month. The records for her card payments are shown below.

Stacy has a credit card payment that has been increasing recently each month. The-example-1
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We will analyze the difference between each subsequent value in the data set:


\begin{gathered} 208-187=21 \\ 233-208=25 \\ 262-233=29 \end{gathered}

Since the difference between each value has little variation, this data set can be model by a linear function.