Business: Gambling Revenues The operating revenues for Las Vegas Sands (the largest gami...

Business: Gambling Revenues The operating revenues for Las Vegas Sands (the largest gaming enterprise in Nevada) for recent years are given in the following table.

a. Number the data columns with x-values 1– 4 (so that x stands for number of years since 2008), use power regression to fit a curve to the data, and state the regression formula. [Hint: See Example 7 on pages 27–28.]

b. Use the regression function to predict the operating revenue in the year 2020.