In 2017, ups, the shipping company, delivered about 5.1 billion packages, had 119.000
vehicles, and had 454,000 employees. in 2012, ups delivered 4.1 billion packages
delivery vehicles, and had 399,000 employees.
(a) by what percent did the number of package deliveries grow between 2012 and 20172
(b) by what percent did the number of employees grow between 2012 and 2017?
(c) by what percent did the number of delivery vehicles grow between 2012 and 2012
(d) use the information you have gathered so far to describe what happened at ups between
2012 and 2017
(e) write 2012 and 4.1 as an ordered pair using the year as the x-coordinate and the number of
packages in billions as the y-coordinate.
(f) create a similar ordered pair for the number of package deliveries in 2017.
(g) graph the two points. you may wish to use breaks in the graph, as was done in the workbook.
(h) find the slope of the line connecting the two points. interpret the slope in context.