Howard Weiss, owner of a musical instrument distributorship, thinks that the demand for bass drums may be related to the number of television appearances by the popular group Stone Temple Pilots in the previous month. Weiss has collected the data shown below:
Demand for Bass Drums 3 7 6 5 8 7
Stone Temple Pilot’s 3 6 7 5 10 6
TV Appearances
Use the least squares regression method to derive a forecasting equation.