Question

The average number of welfare cases during 1998-2003 in a city given by the model y= -118x^2 -108x +14,906, where x is the number of years after 1995.
a) What x-values corresponds to the year 2000?

Answer 1

since x is the "number of years after 1995" then in this case the x values for 2000 would indeed be 5

Answer 2

So what about the x-value correspnds to the year 2002, would it be 7?