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Use a graphing calculator to do Exercises 67 -70.
Forward Industries Costs The following table shows the costs (in millions of dollars) for Forward Industries Inc. (Data from: www.morningstar.com.)
Year | Costs |
2006 | 23 |
2007 | 17 |
2008 | 16 |
2009 | 14 |
2010 | 15 |
2011 | 18 |
2012 | 25 |
2013 | 25 |
2014 | 27 |
2015 | 24 |
(a) Use cubic regression to find a third-order polynomial function
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What does the model estimate for the costs in 2014? Is it close to the actual costs shown in the table?
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