Dr. Lillian Fok, a New Orleans psychologist, specializes in treating patients who are agoraphobic (i.e., afraid to leave their homes). The following table indicates how many patients Dr. Fok has seen each year for the past 10 years. It also indicates what the robbery rate was in New Orleans during the same year:

a. The simple linear regression equation that shows the best relationship between the number of patients and year is (round your responses to three decimal places):

where = Dependent Variable and x = Independent Variable.

b. Using Linear Regression, the number of patients Dr. Fok will see in year 11 is ?

c. Using Linear Regression, the number of patients Dr. Fok will see in year 12 is ?

\begin{tabular}{lcccccccccc} \hline Year & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 \\ \hline \begin{tabular}{l} Number of Patients \\ \begin{tabular}{l} Robbery Rate \\ per 1,000 Population \end{tabular} \end{tabular} & 37 & 33 & 39 & 42 & 42 & 54 & 60 & 53 & 58 & 60 \\ \hline \end{tabular} y^=+x