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

question 44

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. When three polynomial trend equations are compared, which of them provides the best fit?

• A) Linear
• B) Exponential
• C) Quadratic
• D) Cubic

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