According to a census, there were 62 people per square mile (this is called the population density) in a certain country in 1980. by 2000, the number of people per square mile had grown to 86. this information was used to develop a linear equation in slope-intercept form, given below, where x is the time in years and y is the population density. think of 1980 as year zero. what is the population density expected to be in 2015? y= x+62 in 2015, the population density is expected to be people per square mile. enter your answer in the answer box here to search