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(Introduction music)

Image description: Andrew and Marissa are in the kitchen standing in front of the stove. On the counter beside the stove is a data table.

Marissa: Well, according to the residuals, this data should not be modeled with a linear function.

Andrew: There are a lot of other function families that may be a better fit.  What functions have you studied so far?

Marissa: In math class, we’ve looked at exponential and quadratic functions.

Andrew:  Great.  Let’s start there.