Question

The following table shows total forest and timberland in the united states in millions of acres in the indicated year

Answer 1

well I'd say you need to put the information into a calculator and have it do a quadratic regression...

I don't have a calculator with me

Answer 2

I got this on my calculator y=0.036x^2-1.976x+761.454

Answer 3

@campbell_st is the R^2 the SSE?

Answer 4

isn't r^2 the coefficient of determination...?

I can't remember, but it shows there is a strong correlation from memory

Answer 5

@campbell_st I think so