1.The table shows how the population of a town has been growing, over the past 10 years.

Number of Years 0 2 4 6 8 10

Population (1000s)15.2 20.2 27 35.6 47 61.5

a)Manufacture a scatter plot on excel. Does the relationship appear to be linear or non-linear?

b)Include an image of your graph.

c)Perform a linear regression. Record the equation of the best-fit curve and the correlation coefficient.