The Accompanying Table Gives the Forecast for the Worldwide Sales

question 84

Multiple Choice

The accompanying table gives the forecast for the worldwide sales (in billions of dollars) of information security through 2007 (t = 0 corresponds to 2002) : Find an equation of the least-squares line for these data. Use the result to estimate the spending on information security software in 2008, assuming that the trend continued. Round your answers to two decimal places.

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