The table below contains the average public school classroom teacher's salaries,y

y

, for an 11-year period. Ifx

x

represents the number of years since 1990, use Excel to find a linear model for the data.

Year 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

Salary 34821 33639 34373 35805 35148 39081

Year 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

Salary 3706 340986 39491 396564 0598

With the salary given byy=mx+b

y=mx+b

m=

b=