Does the line seem to fit the data? Why or why not?

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Does the line seem to fit the data? Why or why not?

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It is not a right decision to fit linear line in the data, because from the graph there is an increase in year $2002$ , the number of AIDS cases diagnosed decreased year by year

Year	# flu cases diagnosed	# flu deaths
Pre-1981	$91$	$29$
$1981$	$319$	$121$
$1982$	$1, 170$	$453$
$1983$	$3, 076$	$1, 482$
$1984$	$6, 240$	$3, 466$
$1985$	$11, 776$	$6, 878$
$1986$	$19, 032$	$11, 987$
$1987$	$28, 564$	$16, 162$
$1988$	$35, 447$	$20, 868$
$1989$	$42, 674$	$27, 591$
1990	48,634	$31, 335$
1991	59,660	36,560
1992	78,530	41,055
1993	78,834	44,730
1994	71,874	49,095
1995	68,505	49,456
1996	59,347	38,510
1997	47,149	20,736
1998	38,393	19,005
1999	25,174	18,454
2000	25,522	17,347
2001	25,643	17,402
2002	26,464	16,371
Total	802,118	489,093

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