Fitting Linear Models to Data · Exercise 42

Consider this scenario: The profit of a company increased steadily over a ten-year span. The following ordered pairs show the number of units sold in hundreds and the profit in thousands of dollars over the ten year span, (number of units sold, profit) for specific recorded years:

$\left(\text{46},\text{25}0\right),\left(\text{48},\text{3}05\right),\left(50,\text{35}0\right),\left(\text{52},\text{39}0\right),\left(\text{54},\text{41}0\right).$

Predict when the profit will exceed one million dollars.

Its source prints no answer for this problem, so there's nothing to check against.

OpenStax, Algebra and Trigonometry 2e · §4.3 Fitting Linear Models to Data · Exercise 42