Sweden has kept meticulous records of its population for

Chapter 2, Problem 23

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Sweden has kept meticulous records of its population for many years. The following graph shows the mortality rate (as a percentage) for female and male children in Sweden over a 250-year period. a. Describe the overall trend, and the similarities and differences between the female and male graphs. b. Assuming the graphs are roughly linear between 1800 and 1950, draw a line approximating the female childhood mortality rate during this time. What is the slope of the line and what does it tell you in this context? c. Construct a linear function to model the deaths over this period. d. What is happening in the years after 1950? Note: The large spike between 1750 and 1800 represents the more than 300,000 Swedish children (out of a total population of about 2 million) who died from smallpox, the most feared disease of that century