Question: Best fitting line for discrete data

Hi
I appreciate your help forfinding the best fitting line for a discrete series.

 

Starting with 1978 as base year and counting by two's the five year overage global temperature. where 

the temperature is given by the data : x[0],...,x[12] 

1) Find the best  fitting line : x[n+1]=a*x[n]+b
2) Assuming we can extrapolate, find the predicted value x[30]

 

Fitting_best_line.mw

 

Many thanks for your help.

 

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