College Algebra in Context with Applications for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134179025
Author: Ronald J. Harshbarger, Lisa S. Yocco
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6.2, Problem 28E
Consumer Prices The data in the table give the consumer price index (CPI) for selected years from 1945 to 2009.
- a. Create a scatter plot of the data, with x equal to the number of years after 1945.
(Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- b. What type of function would be best to model the in data? Find the equation of that function. Round the coefficient of the cubic term to five decimal places.
- c. Use the function to estimate the CPI in 2015.
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