The attendance at major league baseball games for various years is listed below.
a. Write a model that relates the attendance in millions as a function of the number of years since 1985.
b. Use the model to predict when the attendance will reach 71 million again.
c. In 1998, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa raced to break the homerun record. That year the attendance reached 70.6 million. Did the attendance for 1998 follow your model? Do you think the race to break the homerun record affected attendance? Why or why not