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Movie attendance. Dreamworks movie studio tries to release a “blockbuster” movie each summer. Assume that these statistics describe ticket sales for such a movie:
Week 2: 5 million tickets sold
Week 4: 7 million tickets sold
Week 6: 8 million tickets sold
We did quadratic regression to find that
a. Show that the graph of this equation passes through the three data points regrading attendance.
b. According to this model, what is the maximum value that A can attain?
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