% Given data h = [0, 2000, 5000, 7500, 10000, 20000, 26000]; % Altitudes (ft) T = [212, 210, 203, 198, 194, 178, 168]; % Boiling temperatures (°F) % Create the Vandermonde matrix for polynomial interpolation n = length(h); V = zeros(n, n); for i = 1:n V(i, :) = h(i).^(0:n-1); % Powers of h for each row end % Solve the system of linear equations to find the coefficients a = V \ T'; % 'a' is the vector of coefficients for the interpolation polynomial % Display the coefficients disp('Coefficients of the interpolation polynomial:'); disp(a);