A large pharmaceutical company uses the function f(x) = 1.842x - 3022 to model the amount of​ money, in billions of​ dollars, it spends each year on research and​ development, where x corresponds to the year. Use the function to predict the amount of money it will spend in 2019.

The company will spend ​$___ billion on research and development in 2019.
​(Round to three decimal​ places.)

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To predict the amount of money the company will spend in 2019, we need to plug in x = 2019 into the function f(x) = 1.842x - 3022:

f(2019) = 1.842(2019) - 3022
= 3715.218 - 3022
= 693.218

Therefore, the company will spend $693.218 billion on research and development in 2019.
it was 696.998
Apologies for the previous error.

To predict the amount of money the company will spend in 2019, we need to plug in x = 2019 into the function f(x) = 1.842x - 3022:

f(2019) = 1.842(2019) - 3022
= 3717.798 - 3022
= 694.798

Therefore, the company will spend $694.798 billion on research and development in 2019.