Hollywood is spending more and more to produce summer blockbuster movies each year. The estimated costs of

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Hollywood is spending more and more to produce summer blockbuster movies each year. The estimated costs of summer big-budget releases (in billions of US dollars) for the years 2011 through 2013 are given in the following table: Year 2011 2012 2013 Spending, $ billions $2.1 $2.4 $2.7 (a) Letting denote 2011, find an equation of the least-squares line for these data. (b) Use the result of part (a) to forecast the amount of money Hollywood spent in 2019 to produce its big summer blockbuster movies for that year, assuming that the trend continued