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Too Many Corn Plants per Acre? The more corn a farmer plants per acre, the greater is the yield the farmer can expect. But only up to a point, many plants acre can cause Overcrowding and decrease yields, data give yields per acre for various densities of corn plantings, as found by researchers at a university test farm.
(a) Find the quadratic polynormal that best fits the data.
(b) Draw a graph of the polynomial from part (a) together with a scatter plot of the data.
(c) use your result (b) to estimate the yield for 37000 plants per acre.
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