word problem

Question

After? door-to-door canvassing, census workers determine the number of unoccupied homes. The table shown to the right lists the number of? homes, in? millions, that were unoccupied in four census years.
Answer questions a through c.

 

a). Use a graphing calculator to fit an exponential function to the? data, where x is the number of years after 1965.

 

Year,x            Number of Unoccupied Homes in Census? (in millions)

1965,  0             5.2

1975,   10           7.3

1985,    20          9.1

1995,    30          14.3

Answer 1

Hi Logan,

 

I am not sure as to how to answer this.

 

However, I plugged your data in Excel and asked for a exponential trendline and I got

 

y = 5.1448e^0.0326x