A city manager made a scatter plot of number of retail stores in a certain cirty over years. The scatterplot had a trend like 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. Mark and his family moved to a city in 1997. How many retail stores were their in 1997

Answer: There were 89 retail stores in 1997.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hi, to answer this question, first, we have to calculate the number of years since 1990 (x).

1997-1990 = 7 years

Now, we simply substitute x=7 (years) in the equation given

y=11x+12

y=11 (7) + 12

y=77+12

y = 89 retail stores

There were 89 retail stores in 1997.

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