Fitting Linear Models to Data · Review Exercise 84

Consider this scenario: The population of a city increased steadily over a ten-year span. The following ordered pairs show the population and the year over the ten-year span (population, year) for specific recorded years:

$(\text{3},\text{600},\text{2000});(\text{4},\text{000},\text{2001});(\text{4},\text{700},\text{2003});(\text{6},\text{000},\text{2006})$

Use linear regression to determine a function $y,$ where the year depends on the population, to three decimal places of accuracy.

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

OpenStax, Precalculus 2e · §2.4 Fitting Linear Models to Data · Review Exercise 84