A government official is preventing a new gas station from being built in your n

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A government official is preventing a new gas station from being built in your neighborhood. He claims that for every additional gas station built in an area, property crime goes up by 15 occurrences a year. He also claims that if an area did not have gas stations then it would only have 11 property crime occurrences a year.

1. Write down the equation for the predicted relationship between property crime occurrences and gas stations.

2. What is the predicted number of property crime occurrences in an area that has 4 gas stations?

Explanation / Answer

1) the predicted relationship between property crime occurrences and gas stations is

property crime occurrences= 11 + 15(gas stations)

2) if in an area has 4 gas stations, the number of

property crime occurrences= 11 + 15(4)= 71

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