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Question 152881: I HAVE BEEN GIVEN A TABLE WHICH SHOWS THE MEDIAN "B.M.I" (BODY MASS INDEX) FOR FEMALES OF DIFFERENT AGES IN THE U.S IN THE YEAR 2000 . THE QUESTION IS USE TECHNOLOGY TO PLOT THE DATA POINTS ON A GRAPH?? . DEFINE ALL VARIABLES USED AND STATE ANY PARAMETERS CLEARLY??what type of function ,models the behavior of the graph? explain why one chose this function?
AGE B.M.I
2 16.40
3 15.70
4 15.30
5 15.20
6 15.21
7 15.40
8 15.80
9 16.30
10 16.80
11 17.50
12 18.18
13 18.70
14 19.36
15 19.88
16 20.40
17 20.85
18 21.22
19 21.60
20 21.65
: I HAVE BEEN GIVEN A TABLE WHICH SHOWS THE MEDIAN "B.M.I" (BODY MASS INDEX) FOR FEMALES OF DIFFERENT AGES IN THE U.S IN THE YEAR 2000 . THE QUESTION IS USE TECHNOLOGY TO PLOT THE DATA POINTS ON A GRAPH?? . DEFINE ALL VARIABLES USED AND STATE ANY PARAMETERS CLEARLY??what type of function ,models the behavior of the graph? explain why one chose this function?
AGE B.M.I
2 16.40
3 15.70
4 15.30
5 15.20
6 15.21
7 15.40
8 15.80
9 16.30
10 16.80
11 17.50
12 18.18
13 18.70
14 19.36
15 19.88
16 20.40
17 20.85
18 21.22
19 21.60
20 21.65

Answer by jim_thompson5910(9390) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x=age and y=BMI

If we plot the points, we get

Notice that the data is periodically rising and falling. So a trigonometric function like or would fit this data.

Here is my attempt to fit a function to the data. It's not perfect, but it gets pretty close