Microsoft Excel Was Used to Obtain the Following Quadratic Trend

question 40

Short Answer

Microsoft Excel was used to obtain the following quadratic trend equation:
Sales = 100 - 10X + 15X².
The data used was from 1999 through 2008, coded 0 to 9. The forecast for 2009 is ________.

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