Use the information in the accompanying table to answer

Chapter 2, Problem 2.1.13

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Use the information in the accompanying table to answer the following questions. a. What was the average rate of change (in percentage points per year) of completion of 4 years of high school from 1940 to 2008 for whites? For blacks? For Asian/Pacific Islanders? For all? b. If these rates continue, what percentages of whites, of blacks, of Asian/Pacific Islanders, and of all will have finished 4 years of high school in the year 2010? Check the Internet to see if your predictions are accurate. c. If these rates continue, in what year will 100% of whites have completed 4 years of high school or more? In what year 100% of blacks? In what year 100% of Asian/Pacific Islanders? Do these projections make sense? d. Write a 60-second summary describing the key elements in the high school completion data. Include rates of change and possible projections for the near future.