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-A Study of Grocery Buying Habits in a Particular $2001 - 2005$

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-A study of grocery buying habits in a particular region stated that for the years $2001 - 2005$ , the annual number of new family-run grocery stores can be estimated by the equation $y = - 180 x + 2996$ , where $x$ is the number of years after 2000. Graph this equation and use the graph to predict the number of family-run stores that will start up in $2009 .$

A) 1876 stores

B) 1076 stores

C) 2596 stores

D) 1376 stores