16 factory workers made 40 pieces in a certain amount of time.
a)do these quantities (number of workers and number of pieces produced) vary directly or inversely?
b)find the constant of variation.

The customer price index(cpi), which measures the cost of a typical package of customer goods,was 208.8 in 2011 and 244.1 in 2016.let x=11 corresponding to the year 2011 an estimate to cpi into 2013 and 2014. assume that the data can be modeled by a straight line and the trend to continue idenfinitely.use data points to find such a line and then estimate the requested quantities