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The Following Table Gives the US Domestic Oil Production Rates

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The following table gives the US domestic oil production rates (excluding Alaska) over the past few years. A regression equation was fit to the data and the residual plot is shown below.  Year  Millions of barrels per day 19876.3919886.1219895.7419905.5819915.6219925.4619935.2619945.10 Year  Millions of barrels per day 19955.0819965.0719975.1619985.0819994.8320004.8520014.8420024.83\begin{array} { l } \begin{array}{c|c}\text { Year } & \text { Millions of barrels per day } \\\hline 1987 & 6.39 \\1988 & 6.12 \\1989 & 5.74 \\1990 & 5.58 \\1991 & 5.62 \\1992 & 5.46 \\1993 & 5.26 \\1994 & 5.10\end{array}&\begin{array}{c|c}\text { Year } & \text { Millions of barrels per day } \\\hline 1995 & 5.08 \\1996 & 5.07 \\1997 & 5.16 \\1998 & 5.08 \\1999 & 4.83 \\2000 & 4.85 \\2001 & 4.84 \\2002 & 4.83\end{array}\end{array}

 The following table gives the US domestic oil production rates (excluding Alaska) over the past few years. A regression equation was fit to the data and the residual plot is shown below.  \begin{array} { l  } \begin{array}{c|c} \text { Year } & \text { Millions of barrels per day } \\ \hline 1987 & 6.39 \\ 1988 & 6.12 \\ 1989 & 5.74 \\ 1990 & 5.58 \\ 1991 & 5.62 \\ 1992 & 5.46 \\ 1993 & 5.26 \\ 1994 & 5.10 \end{array}&\begin{array}{c|c} \text { Year } & \text { Millions of barrels per day } \\ \hline 1995 & 5.08 \\ 1996 & 5.07 \\ 1997 & 5.16 \\ 1998 & 5.08 \\ 1999 & 4.83 \\ 2000 & 4.85 \\ 2001 & 4.84 \\ 2002 & 4.83 \end{array}\end{array}      Does the residual plot suggest that the regression equation is a bad model? Why or why not?
Does the residual plot suggest that the regression equation is a bad model? Why or why
not?


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