Using Matlab

Duck data.txt reads:

1952 7 1953 8 1954 1 1955 8 1956 5 1957 0 1958 2 1959 4 1960 8 1961 8 1962 1 1963 8 1964 8 1965 4 1966 7 1967 1 1968 3 1969 8 1970 7 1971 8 1972 5 1973 0 1974 7 1975 8 1976 6 1977 6 1978 6 1979 3 1980 5 1981 1 1982 6 1983 0 1984 2 1985 9 1986 0 1987 7 1988 6 1989 2 1990 8 1991 0 1992 3 1993 3 1994 6 1995 7 1996 1 1997 4 1998 4 1999 5 2000 6 2001 6 2002 2 2003 6 2004 5 2005 1 2006 1 2007 4 2008 8 2009 3 2010 5 2011 2 2012 6 2013 2 2014 4 2015 6 

Problem 1 Background Environmental Engineers often take measurements of large data sets to analyze how conditions ration value. This could apply to many difference facets, wildlife population, chemical contamination, etc Problem Statement PART 1 You are an environmental engineer who needs to analyze duck population data of Mirror Lake in order to put together an ecology report. Your main goal is to find out on average how many ducks were on the pond each year. You have obtained a file called duck_data.txt that records the year (column 1) and the rounded average number of ducks in the Mirror Lake for that year (column 2) from 1952-2015 In a script file, develop a program that can analyze the years from 1970-2010. Plot the number of ducks v. the year. Keep in mind that these values were generated off of measurements in the field. PART 2 Your coworker left you with the formula that estimates the number of Crested Ducks (Y) as a function of the average number of ducks per that year (X): NOTE: Afroduck is a Crested duck, google it!)