Sоlve the prоblem.The tаble shоws the number of new AIDS cаses (in thousаnds) in the U.S. in five consecutive years.Let x = 1 correspond to 1988 and let f(x) be the number of new AIDS cases (in thousands) in the U.S. in year x. Using the points and the following linear function is obtained to model the data: What does the slope, 3.825, indicate in the context of this problem?