Disposable income is the amount left after taxes have been paid and is one measure of health of the economy. The table gives the total disposable income for a country, in billions of dollars, for selected years from 2010 and projected to 2040.Complete parts (a) through (c) below.

Disposable income is the amount left after taxes have been paid and is one measure of health of the economy The table gives the total disposable income for a co class=

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Best-Fit Line

Given a series of data, it could be interesting to try to model them with a linear equation.

We are provided with a dataset and when plotting them we get the graph below:

Since the behavior of the data looks somewhat aligned, a line would fit very well to this dataset.

There are several automated tools that help us to find the slope and the intercept of such a line. We'll use MS Excel.

The regression line is found to be:

y = 0.3x + 7

The best-line along with the original data is shown below:

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