The annual enrollment of a university for the last nine years is recorded in the table. Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Students (thousands) 9.5 8 8.5 7.5 6.5 6.5 8.5 8.5 9
What quadratic function best models this set of data?

Sam is a waiter at a local restaurant where he earns wages of $5 per hour sam figures that he also eams about $3 in tips for each person he serves sam works 6 hours on a particular day. if n represents the number of people sam serves that day, which of the following functions could sam use to figure ehis total earings for the do o a. en) = 30 o b. en) = 5n+ 18