Chapter 9.5, Problem 40MS

Correlated Britney. The Britney S. Fan Club has data on attendance at their weekly meetings over the last semester. In Week 1,40 students attended. In Week 2, 37 students attended. In Week 3, 34 students attended. If the plot of all the data points shows a correlation of $\text{—1,}$ what was the attendance in Week 12? Write an equation that gives the number of students attending, y, as a function of the number of the week of the semester, x. (So x will take on the values $\text{1,2, 3, }\mathrm{...}\text{, up to 12}\text{.)}$