The annual profits for a company are given in the following table, where x represents the number of years since 2003, and y represents the profit in thousands of dollars.
Write the linear regression equation that represents this set of data, rounding all
coefficients to the nearest tenth. Using this equation, find the projected profit (in
thousands of dollars) for 2012, rounded to the nearest thousand dollars.
Years since 2003 (x)
Profits (y)
(in thousands of dollars)
0
85
1
117
2
126
3
168
4
203
5
5
223

30 points! here is a you are the new manager at trusty goods wholesale produce. you need to figure out how to adjust the amount of produce in your notes after the events of the day: you got 5 more crates of bananas someone returned 2 crates of apples a worker dropped a crate of grapes (oh no! , you had to throw them out) you sold a crate of bananas you sold 5 crates of apples can you write an expression to describe your day using: "a" for crates of apples "b" for crates of bananas and "g" for crates of grapes? make sure the expression is in simplest form question 2 (3 points) explain your steps using sentences.