SOLUTION: My daughter needs to write the function rule for x y 0 1 1 3 2 5 3 11 4 25 5 55 6 95 Not all numbers are divisible by 5 - she tried squaring - exponents - she's

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Question 435472: My daughter needs to write the function rule for
x y
0 1
1 3
2 5
3 11
4 25
5 55
6 95
Not all numbers are divisible by 5 - she tried squaring - exponents - she's stumped. any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I plotted the pairs on a graphing calculator
and ran a CubicRegression program against the
data.
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The Regression equation is
y = 0.6111111x^3-1.38095x^2+2.007937x+1.285714
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The R-value is 0.999189
which indicates a very strong correlation.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


    -11x6+177x5-1055x4+3135x3-4334x2+2808x+360
y = —————————————————————————————————————————            
                     360

Edwin