A soda company had sales of $35,137 million in 2010 and $45,954 million in 2014. Use the Midpoint Formula to estimate the sales in 2012. Assume that the sales followed a linear pattern.

Answer 1

Since 2012 is the midpoint between 2010 and 2014 and we are assuming that sales increased linearly we can use the Midpoint Formula here and simply take the average of the 2 sales numbers.

(35,137 + 45,954)/2 = 81,091/2 = 40,545.5

So we will say that the estimate for sales in 2012 was $45,545,500,000.