Question 1 1 pts
A biologist took a count of the number of migrating waterfowl at a particular lake, and recounted the lake's
population of waterfowl on each of the next six weeks.
Week 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Population 585 582
726 873 1,070 1,317
629
a.
Find a quadratic function that models the data as a function of x, the number of weeks.
b.
Use the model to estimate the number of waterfowl at the lake on week 8.