FACTOR THE POLYNOMIAL 8Y^2 - 72 BTW "^" MEANS EXPONENT
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The data is equally spaced in x so let's start by taking first differences.
4-9 = -5
-1-4 = -5
-6 - -1 = -5
-11 - -6 = -5
Hmmm. I detect a pattern. That tells us we have a line and the slope is -5.
We read off the y intercept from x=0 as -1.
So our equation in slope intercept form is
y = -5 x - 1
or as a function