BUSINESS: Broadband Subscribers The number of subscribers to broadband (high-speed c...

BUSINESS: Broadband Subscribers The number of subscribers to broadband (high-speed connection to the Internet, excluding mobile) in recent years is given in the following table.

a. Number the data columns with x-values 1–5 (so that x stands for years since 2005), use power regression to fit a power curve to the data, and state the regression formula. [Hint: See Example 7.]

b. Use the regression formula to predict the number of broadband subscribers in the year 2015.

Reference: See Example 7