An investigator has reported the data tabulated below for an experiment to determine the growth rate of bacteria k (per d), as a function of oxygen concentration c (mg/L). It is known that such data can be modeled by the following equation:

k = kmaxc2/c5 + c2

where c5 and kmax are parameters. Use a transformation to linearize this equation. Then use linear regression to estimate c5 and kmax and predict the growth rate at c = 2mg/L

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0.5 0.8 1.5 2.5 24 5.3 7.6 89 1.1