Business The accompanying bar graph shows the net earnings (in millions of dollars) of the...

Business The accompanying bar graph shows the net earnings (in millions of dollars) of the Starbucks Corporation, as given in its annual reports. The polynomial

gives a good approximation of Starbucks’s net earnings in year x, where x =1 corresponds to 2001, x = 2 to 2002, and so on (1 ≤ x ≤ 7). The given years,

(a) use the bar graph to determine the net earnings;

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(b) use the polynomial to determine the net earnings.

2005