City Community College plans to increase its enrollment capacity to keep up with an increasing number of student applicants. The college currently has an enrollment capacity of 2200 students and plans to increase its capacity by 70 students each year. What will the enrollment capacity be 3 years from now?

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baru · Answer

can you show how far you have gotten?

mathmale · Answer

This situation could be modeled with a linear (first order) equation of the form y=mx+b, where m represents slope and b represents y-intercept.  Think about this for a while and see whether you can apply previous knowledge to writing such an equation in this case.