The administrator of Good Health Hospital would like a cost formula linking the costs involved in admitting patients to the number of patients admitted during a month. The admitting departments costs, and the number of patients admitted during the immediately preceding eight months are given in the following table:

Month	Number of patients admitted	Admitting department costs
May	1,800	$ 14,700
June	1,900	15,200
July	1,700	13,700
August	1,600	14,000
September	1,500	14,300
October	1,300	13,100
November	1,100	12,800
December	1,500	14,600
January	1,850	$
February	2,100
March	2,500
April
May
June

Required:

1. Used the high-low method to establish the fixed and variable component of admitting costs. Present the cost formula in the linear equation form.

2. Use the cost formula to make a cost projection for the months of January, February, March, April, May and June.