a.
Draw a
Discuss the change in the number of organ transplants between 1990 and 1999.
b.
Identify a suitable transformation of x and/or y to straighten the scatterplot.
Draw the scatterplot between the transformed variables.
c.
Find the least-squares regression line between the transformed variables recommended in the previous part.
Predict the number of patients waiting for an organ transplant in Year 11, that is, 2000.
d.
Identify the assumption that must be made to ensure that the prediction in Part c is reasonable.
Justify whether the assumption is reasonable in this case.
Explain whether the same assumption would hold true for the year 2010.
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