The population of a small town is shown in the table. Year
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Population 14, 201
14,208 13,891
13,864
13,548
Would you expect the correlation coefficient for the line of best fit to be positive or negative? Explain your
answer

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size. it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?