In 1959, the Ise Bay typhoon devastated parts of Japan. For seven metropolitan areas in the storm's path, the following table gives the number of homes damaged as a function of peak wind gust (118). Show that a function of the form y = axb provides a good model for the data.

Use the following sums:

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Peak Wind Gus (hundred mph), x Numbers of Damaged City Homes (in thousands), y l0 0.98 0.74 1.12 1.34 0.87 0.65 1.39 25.000 0.950 200.000 150.000 0.940 0.090 260.000 Σ log Xi =-0.067772 Σ1ogy 7.1951 Σ(log xi)2-0.0948679 に! Σ(log xi )(log yi) =0.92314