BUSINESS: Google Revenues The December quarterly operating revenues for Google f...

BUSINESS: Google Revenues The December quarterly operating revenues for Google 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 two-year intervals since 2001), use power regression to fi t a curve to the data, and state the regression formula. [Hint: See Example 7 on pages 28–29.] b. Use the regression function to predict Google’s operating revenue in the year 2015.

REFERECNE : EXAMPLE 7 ON PAGES 28-29