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Fit a second degree parabolic curve to the following data:

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x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
y 2 6 7 8 10 11 11 10 9
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We write X such that $ \sum X=0 $ . Here N=9 (odd)

x $X_i$ $Y_i$ $X_i^2$ $X_i^3$ $X_i^4$ $X_iY_i$ $X_i^2Y_i$
1 -4 2 16 -64 256 -8 32
2 -3 6 9 -27 81 -8 54
3 -2 7 4 -8 16 -14 28
4 -1 8 1 -1 …

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