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:

• Identify the dependent and the independent variables                                      
• By first computing the regression coefficient “a” and “b”, state the regression equation of y on x.                                                                                             

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