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Question 847906: I am not sure how to go about solving this problem. Can you please help?
The profits (in millions) for a company for 8 years was as follows:
Year , X Profits
1993, 1 1.1
1994, 2 1.7
1995, 3 2.0
1996, 4 1.4
1997, 5 1.3
1998, 6 1.5
1999, 7 1.8
2000, 8 2.1
Find the cubic function of best fit to the data.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I used EXCEL (not sure that's allowed).
y=0.026x%5E3-0.3398x%5E2%2B1.308x%2B0.1786
R%5E2=0.7429