The following table shows the annual revenues (in millions of dollars)of a pharmaceutical company over the period 1990-2011. The Excel scatterplot shown indicates that the annual revenues have an increasing trend.Therefore,linear,exponential,quadratic,and cubic models were used to fit the trend,and the following relevant information became available after applying linear regression. When three polynomial trend equations are compared,which of them provides the best fit?
A) Linear
B) Exponential
C) Quadratic
D) Cubic

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The following table shows the annual revenues (in millions of dollars)of a pharmaceutical company over the period 1990-2011.   The Excel scatterplot shown indicates that the annual revenues have an increasing trend.Therefore,linear,exponential,quadratic,and cubic models were used to fit the trend,and the following relevant information became available after applying linear regression.  When three polynomial trend equations are compared,which of them provides the best fit?
A) Linear 
B) Exponential 
C) Quadratic 
D) Cubic

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The Answer of The following table shows the annual revenues (in millions of dollars)of a pharmaceutical company over the period 1990-2011.   The Excel scatterplot shown indicates that the annual revenues have an increasing trend.Therefore,linear,exponential,quadratic,and cubic models were used to fit the trend,and the following relevant information became available after applying linear regression.  When three polynomial trend equations are compared,which of them provides the best fit?
A) Linear 
B) Exponential 
C) Quadratic 
D) Cubic

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