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4.3 Exercise 52

Avg difficulty 2.5

(46,250),(48,225),(50,205),(52,180),(54,165). \left(\text{46} , \text{25} 0\right) , \left(\text{48} , \text{225}\right) , \left(50 , \text{2} 05\right) , \left(\text{52} , \text{18} 0\right) , \left(\text{54} , \text{165}\right) .

Use linear regression to determine a function y, where the profit in thousands of dollars depends on the number of units sold in hundreds.

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 4.3 Fitting Linear Models to Data, exercise 52

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