The owner of a rapidly expanding business finds that for the first five months of the year the sales (in thousands) are $4.0, $4.4, $5.2, $6.4, and $8.0. The owner plots these figures on a graph and conjectures that for the rest of the year, the sales curve can be approximated by a quadratic polynomial. Find the least squares quadratic polynomial fit to the sales curve, and use it to project the sales for the twelfth month of the year. Do not use computer.

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