Sales of automobiles worldwide continues to grow as emerging economies provide their citizens more purchasing power. in 2009, there were thousand new car sales in a region, and in 2014, this number increased to 66 thousand cars. assume that the relationship between time, x, and number of new cars sold, y, is a linear relationship. a.) write an equation describing the relationship between time and the number of new automobiles sold in the region. use ordered pairs of the form (years past 2009, number of automobiles sold). b.) use this equation to predict the number of new car sales in the region in the year 2019. a.) the equation describing the relationship is:
(type in slope-intercept form).

b.) in the year 2019, thousand new cars will be sold

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