Question

The number of unemployed persons registered in the 1000s during the corona pandemic in Sweden has been noted as follows:
January: 410, February: 454, March: 389, April: 438, May: 460.

(a) Fit a linear model with the least squares method to this data
(b) Estimate the number of registered unemployed in June. Describe the meaning of extrapolation
in this context.

Answer 1