Solve the problem.Several years ago, a large city undertook a major effort to encourage carpooling in order to reduce traffic congestion. The accompanying table shows the number of carpoolers, in thousands, from 2007 to 2012. Use regression to obtain a function  that models the data, where  corresponds to 2007,  to 2008, and so on. Round the constants a and b to the nearest hundredth.

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A. f(x) = 4.29 + 5.14 ln x
B. f(x) = 4.22 + 5.25 ln x
C. f(x) = 4.40 + 5.32 ln x
D. f(x) = 4.33 + 5.17 ln x


Answer: B

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