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Finance According to the U.S. Department of Education, the average financial aid award (in...

Finance According to the U.S. Department of Education, the average financial aid award (in dollars) for a full-time student is given in the following table for various years:

Year

1995

2000

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Amount

2,596

2,925

3,208

3,324

3,407

3,458

3,629

(a) Let x = 5 correspond lo 1995, and find the least- squares regression line for the data.


(b) What is the correlation coefficient? Does it indicate that the line is a good fit?


(c) Assuming the trend continues, estimate the average financial aid award for a student in 2011.

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