In 1940, there were 250,017 immigrants admitted to a country. In 2001, the number was 1,195,879.a. Assuming that the change in immigration is linear, write an equation expressing the number of immigrants, y, in terms of t, the number of years after 1900.b. Use your result in part a to predict the number of immigrants admitted to the country in 2014.c. Considering the value of the y-intercept in your answer to part a, discuss the validity of using this equation to model the number of immigrants throughout the entire 20th century. a. A linear equation for the number of immigrants is nothing.