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The current and estimated resident populations (in percent) of blacks and Hispanics in the United States for the years 199020501990-2050 are modeled by the linear functions defined below.

y=.0515x+12.3 Blacks y=.255x+9.01 Hispanics \begin{array}{ll} y=.0515 x+12.3 & \text { Blacks } \\ y=.255 x+9.01 & \text { Hispanics } \end{array}

In the case, xx represents the number of years since 1990.

(b) What percent of the U.S. resident population will be black or Hispanic in the year found in earlier part.?

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In part aa, we obtained x=16x=16. To find the resident populations (in percentage) of Blacks in the year 20062006, we need to substitute the value of xx in the first equation and solve for yy.

y=0.0515(16)+12.3=0.824+12.3=13.124\begin{aligned} y&=0.0515(16)+12.3\\ &=0.824+12.3\\ &=13.124 \end{aligned}

Thus, the resident populations (in percentage) of Blacks is 13.124%13.124\%

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