TABLE 15-3 a Chemist Employed by a Pharmaceutical Firm Has Developed a Developed

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TABLE 15-3
A chemist employed by a pharmaceutical firm has developed a muscle relaxant.She took a sample of 14 people suffering from extreme muscle constriction.She gave each a vial containing a dose (X)of the drug and recorded the time to relief (Y)measured in seconds for each.She fit a curvilinear model to this data.The results obtained by Microsoft Excel follow
-Referring to Table 15-3,the prediction of time to relief for a person receiving a dose of 10 units of the drug is ________.

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