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Business The following table gives the total compensation (in dollars) per full-time emplo...

Business The following table gives the total compensation (in dollars) per full-time employee for various years. (Data from: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.)

Year

2000

2005

2010

2011

Compensation

47,059

56,620

66,249

68,129

(a) Use the data from the years 2000 and 2010 to find a linear model for the data, with x = 0 corresponding to the year 2000.


(b) Find the least-squares regression line for the data.


(c) Use the models from part (a) and (b) to estimate the compensation for the year 2011. Compare the estimates to the actual compensation of $68,129 for the year 2011.


(d) Assume the trend continues and use the model for (b) to estimate the compensation per full-time employee in the year 2015

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