The value of one share of company stock is given by the following data set, where x is the number of weeks after the company went
public, and y is the value of the stock share in dollars.
Weekly Stock Value
Weeks
0
4
8 12 16 20
$ Value $42 $16 $10 $12 $10 $6
a) Find a cubic regression model for this data. [Round values to 3 decimal places.]
y =
x3+
x²+
X+
b) According to this model, the stock's value will become $25 during week #
[Round up to nearest week.]