Exercise 2.3.17

Answers

The parabola $y = a + bx + c x^{2}$ goes through the 3 given points when $a + 2 b + 4 c = 8$

a + 3 b + 9 c = 14

Then $a = 2, b = 1$ , and $c = 1$ . This matrix with columns $(1, 1, 1), (1, 2, 3), (1, 4, 9)$ is a "Vandermonde matrix."

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