Plantcity is a large nursery and retail store specializing in house and gardenplants and supplies. Jean Raouth, the assistant manager, is in the process ofbudgeting monthly supplies expense for 2019. She assumes that in some waysupplies expense is related to sales, either in units or in dollars. She hascollected these data for sales and supplies expenses for June 2016 throughDecember 2018, and has estimated sales for 2019.

\fDecember-18 3,364 1,122 34,330 January-19 180 16,000 February-19 230 20,000 March-19 190 19,000 April-19 450 24,000 May-19 350 $ 23,000 June-19 350 23,000 July-19 450 25,000 August-19 550 30,000 September-19 300 25,000 .g October-19 300 25,000 November-19 450 32,000 December-19 950 $ 39,000 Required 1. Develop the regression that Jean should use based on the data and evaluate the reliability and precision of the regression you have chosen. 6 17 2. What are the predicted monthly figures for supplies expense for 2019? 1