(b) The following table gives indices of industrial production of registered unemployed (in hundred thousand)

Year:

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Index of Production

100

102

104

107

105

112

103

99

No. unemployed

15

12

13

11

12

12

19

26

Required:

i.Identify the dependent and the independent variables[2 Marks]

ii.By first computing the regression coefficient "a" and "b", state the regression

equation of y on x.[5 Marks]

Sketch your results in (iii) above