St. Xavier College, a fictional educational institution, wants to forecast the enrollment in its business department for the next academic year. The combined enrollment for full-time and parttime students expressed in full-time equivalents (FTE) for the past 10 semesters are:

1. Plot the data. Does the data appear to have a linear trend?

2. Forecast the enrollment for the next four semesters using the linear trend equation.

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Enrollment Semester 884 921 3 1007 1030 1048 1074 1103 1128 1165 9. 10 1220 2. 4+