Question: Suppose you suspect an exponential relationship between independent variable x and dependent variable y. (An exponential relationship has the general form y = mqx, where

Suppose you suspect an exponential relationship between independent variable x and dependent variable y. (An exponential relationship has the general form y = mqx, where m and q are constants.) You want to use simple linear regression to estimate that relationship. You have the following data and the accompanying scatter diagram to work with.

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Make the appropriate transformation to linearize the data and show the scatter diagram. Then 

a. Find the least squares line that best describes the transformed data.

b. Report the appropriate m and q values for the associated exponential function 

c. Use the exponential function that you’ve identified to compute the expected value of y for x = 1.5. For x = 5.

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