The total amount of construction spending on highways and

Last updated: 4/17/2023

The total amount of construction spending on highways and streets in billions of dollars is given in the accompanying table for the first six months of 201 April June January 99 February 96 March 93 91 87 Month Spending May 90 a Find the least squares regression line that models these data with x 1 corresponding to January 2016 b Assuming the trend continues estimate the amount of spending in December 2016 a The linear model for the data is y x Round to the nearest thousandth as needed