The County Arsenal Travel Soccer Club has boys and girls travel soccer teams at all age levels up to 18 years old. The club has been successful and grown in popularity over the years; however, an obstacle to its continued growth is a shortage of practice and game soccer fields in the area. The club has tried to make a case to the County Board of Supervisors for more soccer fields to accommodate the increasing number of kids who want to play on a club travel team. The number of kids who have played soccer on a club team, and the county€™s population, for the last 10 years is as follows.

The soccer club wants to develop a forecasting model to demonstrate to the Board of Supervisors its expected growth in the future.
a Develop a linear trend line forecast to predict the number of soccer players the club can expect next year.
b. The county planning department has told the soccer club that the county expects to grow to a population of 39,300 by next year and to 40,000 in five years. Develop a linear regression model using the county€™s population as a predictor of the number of club soccer players and compare this forecasting model to the one developed in part (a). Which forecasting model should the club use to support its request for newfields?

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Year Club Soccer Players 246 235 261 276 290 327 318 335 331 339 351 366 401 427 Town Population 38,060 38,021 38,110 38,125 38,240 38,231 38.306 38,477 38,506 38,583 38,609 38,745 39,003 39,062 39,114 15