During what year does the model indicate that the rate of

Question

Modeling

The table gives the number of women age 16 years and older (in millions) in the U.S. civilian work force for selected years from 1950 and projected to 2050.

(a) Use x as the number of years past 1950 to create a cubic model using these data.

(b) During what year does the model indicate that the rate of change of the number of women in the work force reached its maximum?

(c) What feature of the graph of the function found in part (a) is the result found in part (b)?