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Find a Power Function That Models the Data in the Table

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Find a power function that models the data in the table. Round to three decimal places if necessary.
-The table shows the population of a certain city in various different years. Use regression to find values for a and b so that f(x) = axb models this data, where x represents the number of years since 1990 and f(x) is the
Population of the city in hundreds of thousands. Round your answers to 4 decimal places.  Year 19911995199920032007 Population (hundreds of thousands)  3.24.15.79.614.1\begin{array}{l|ccccc}\text { Year } & 1991 & 1995 & 1999 & 2003 & 2007 \\\hline \text { Population (hundreds of thousands) } & 3.2 & 4.1 & 5.7 & 9.6 & 14.1\end{array}


A) a1.8506, b0.5121\mathrm { a } \approx 1.8506 , \mathrm {~b} \approx 0.5121
B) a2.1375,b0.4432a \approx 2.1375 , b \approx 0.4432
C) a1.7025, b0.5375\mathrm { a } \approx 1.7025 , \mathrm {~b} \approx 0.5375
D) a2.6352,b0.4756a \approx 2.6352 , b \approx 0.4756

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