Use the REGRESSION Feature on a Graphing Calculator

question 166

Multiple Choice

Use the REGRESSION feature on a graphing calculator.
-Since 1984 funeral directors have been regulated by the Federal Trade Commission. The average cost of a funeral for an adult in a Midwest city has increased, as shown in the following table. Let x represent the number of years since 1980. Use a graphing calculator to fit a quartic function to the data. Round
Your answer to five decimal places.

• A) y = 170.5971x + 1991.5213

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