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Betsy is interested in predicting how many 75-year old's will develop Alzheimer's disease and is using as predictors level of education and general physical health graded on a scale from 1 to 10. But she is interested in using other predictor variables as well.

With the four predictor variables (level of education, general physical health, mental health and hereditary factors) draw out what the model of the regression equation would look like.

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