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

question 10

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. Which of the following is an exponential trend equation?

• A) _t = exp(6.632 + 0.045t + (0.069)²⁄2)
• B) _t = 6.632 + 0.045t + 0.069 ⁄ 2
• C) _t = exp(6.632 + 0.045t + 0.069 ⁄ 2)
• D) _t = 6.632 + 0.045t + (0.069)²⁄2

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