The manager of the main laboratory facility at CitiFit Center is interested in being able to predict the overhead costs each month for the lab. The manager believes that total overhead varies with the number of lab tests performed but that some costs remain the same each month regardless of the number of lab tests performed. The lab manager collected the following data for the first seven months of the year.

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The laboratory manager performed a regression analysis to predict total laboratory overhead costs. The output generated by Excel is as follows:

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Read the requirements.

Requirement $1.$ Determine the lab's cost equation $($use the output from the Excel regression$).($Round the amourints to two decimal places.$)$

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data.

Data table

$\backslash$table$[[$Month$,\backslash$table$[[$Number of Lab$],[$Tests Performed$]],\backslash$table$[[$Total Laboratory$],[$Overhead Costs$]]],[$January $.....,2,700,$$$22,900$