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A marine engineer is testing a heavy-duty coil spring designed for dock mooring systems. They measure the horizontal extension of the spring under various tensile forces (loads) using a hydraulic test rig. The experimental setup is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Diagram of a hydraulic test rig with a heavy-duty coil spring, load cell, hydraulic ram, and linear displacement sensor.

The engineer's measurements are recorded in the table below:

Load LLL (kN)Extension xxx (cm)
3.01.2
6.02.4
9.03.6
12.04.8
15.06.0
18.07.2

Using a grid where the horizontal axis represents Load LLL (kN) from 0 to 20.0 and the vertical axis represents Extension xxx (cm) from 0 to 8.0, plot the points and draw a line of best fit.

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