Description
Year Population (in thousands)
1960 179,323
1970 203,302
1980 226,542
1990 249,633
2000 281,422
2010 308,746
Worksheet 3
Write a MATLAB function that calculates the divided differences (up to the fifth) for the above table. Use
your results to approximate the population in the years 1950 and 2014.
(The population in 1950 was 150,697,360, and in 2014 the population was estimated to be 317,298,000.)
Name your file: WS4_LastName_FirstInital()
Submit your MATLAB code file to Dropbox no later than Saturday (11:59pm), 9/26/2020.
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