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Trends, Forecasting and Curve-Fitting

Picture this-
2001----------------128
2002-----------------192
2003----------------288
2004-----------------432
2005-----------------648

How many catfish will there be in 2006?

Please explain and give me a strategy for solving this problem?


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A curve is found to fit given data and to make a forecast.

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