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# 4 Cholesterol Level and Risk of Heart Attack

The data in the following table show the relationship of cholesterol level in men to the risk of a heart attack.

cholesterol level x	Men, per 10,000 who suffer a Heart attack, y
100	30
200	65
250	100
275	130
300	180

a) Use a graphing calculator to fit a power function to the data

b) Graph the function with the scatterplot of the data ( draw the graph and label domain and range)

c) Use the answer to part (a) to estimate the heart attack rate for men with cholesterol levels of

150, 350 and 400