Long before the Supreme Court decision legalizing marriagebetween people of the same

Chapter 1, Problem 103

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Long before the Supreme Court decision legalizing marriagebetween people of the same sex, a substantial percentageof Americans were in favor of laws prohibiting interracialmarriage. Since 1972, the General Social Survey has askedDo you think that there should be laws againstmarriages between negroes/blacks/African Americansand whites?In 1972, 39.3% of the adult U.S. population was in favor ofsuch laws. The bar graph shows the percentage of Americansin favor of legislation prohibiting interracial marriage forfive selected years from 1993 through 2002, the last year thedata were collected.The formulap = -2.51t + 17models the percentage of Americans, p, in favor of lawsprohibiting interracial marriage t years after 1993. Iftrends indicated by this model continue, in what year didthe percentage favoring such legislation decrease to 7%?

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