Public health expenditures The expenditures E for
government public health activities (in billions of dollars)
can be approximated by
E = 5.03t2 1 100t 1 1380
where t is the number of years past 2000 (Source: Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
(a) What t-value represents the year 2010?
(b) Actual expenditures for 2010 were $2879 billion.
What does the formula give as the 2010
approximation?
(c) Predict the expenditures for 2015.