The article "Some Parameters of the Population Biology of Spotted Flounder (Ciutharus linguatula Linnaeus, 1758) in Edremit Bay (North Aegean Sea)" (D. Tu¨rker, B. Bayhan, et al., Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Science, 2005:1013-1018) models the relationship between weight W and length L of spotted flounder as W = aLb where a
and b are constants to be estimated from data. Transform this equation to produce a linear model.
The article "Mechanistic-Empirical Design of Bituminous Roads: An Indian Perspective" (A. Das and B. Pandey, Journal of Transportation Engineering, 1999:463-471) presents an equation of the form y = a(1/x1 )b(1/x2 )c for predicting the number of repetitions for laboratory fatigue failure (y) in terms of the tensile strain at the bottom of
the bituminous beam (x1 ) and the resilient modulus (x2 ). Transform this equation into a linear model, and express the linear model coefficients in terms of a, b, and c.