The I-10 carpet outlet wants to develop a means to forecast its sales. The store manager believes that the stores sales are directly related to the number of new housing starts in town. The manager has collected the following for the past 5 months.
month monthlycarpet monthly const.
Sales (1000yd) permits
1 5 17
2 12 30
3 6 12
4 5 14
5 8 10
Compute the regression equation(show work)