The Following Table Shows the Annual Revenues (In Millions of Dollars)

question 103

Multiple Choice

The following table shows the annual revenues (in millions of dollars) of a pharmaceutical company over the period 1990-2011. The scatterplot indicates that the annual revenues have an increasing trend. Linear, exponential, quadratic, and cubic models were fit to the data starting with t = 1, and the following output was generated. Using the linear trend equation, one can say that the predicted revenue increases by ________.

• A) $642,792,000 a year
• B) $604,960,000 a year
• C) $60,496,000 a year
• D) $6,049,600 a year

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