Nayar read a book to cover in a section, at a rate of 55 pages per hour.

After reading for 4 hours, he had 330 pages left to read.

How long is the book?
-----------pages
How long did it take Nayar to read the entire book. Y2-Y1

------------ hour
Time(h) Left Pages
L (h)
0 550
1 495
2 440
3 385
4 330
5 275
6 220
7 .
8 .
. .
. .

L(t) = mt +b m=? b=?

 m=-55, b=550
L(t)= -55t+550
55pages ---------------1 hours
550pages----------------?

(2) A company buys a fax machine for $2,700. If it is worth $100 at the
end of 5 years. What was the machine worth after 3 years?
(0,27000) (5,100) (3,?)
(x ¿ ¿ 1 , y 1 )¿ ( x , y ¿ (x, y)
2 2

y 2− y 1
m= x 2− x1

y= mx+ b
m=-520 b=27000
y=-520x+27000
y=-520 (3) +27000
y=1140
(3) If a business had sales of $50,000 the second year of business and
$100,000 in sales the fifth year,
How much will sales be in the eighth year of business?
(2, 50,000) (5, 100,000) (8, ?)
(x ¿ ¿ 1 , y 1 )¿ ( x , y ¿ (x, y)
2 2

y-y1=m(x-x1)

(1) Fit a second-degree parabola y=a x + bx+ c

2
 ¿ the least square sense for the following data .
X 1 2 3 4 5

Y 10 12 13 16 19

2
The normal equations associated with y=a x +bx + c
na+ b ∑ x+ ¿ c ∑ x =∑ y ¿
2

a ∑ x +b ∑ x +c ∑ x =∑ xy
2 3

a ∑ x +b ∑ x +c ∑ x =∑ x y
2 3 4 2

x y xy x
2 2
x y x
3
x
4

1 10 10 1 1 1 1

2 12 24 4 8 8 16

3 13 39 9 27 27 81
4 16 64 16 64 64 25
6
5 19 95 25 125 125 62
5
∑ x =15 , ∑ y =70 , ∑ xy=232 , ∑ x2 =55 , ∑ x 2 y=906 ,
∑ x 3=225 , ∑ x 4 =979
The normal equations become
5a+15b+55c=70
15a+55b+225c=232
55a+225b+979c=906
a=0.29 ,b=0.49,c=9
 2
y=0.29 x +0.49 x +9.4