A teammate says cars lose value fast in the first years and slower later, so a curve should beat a straight line. Test the idea instead of trusting it.
Add a column age_sq = age_years squared and split with test_size=0.2, random_state=42 using age_years and age_sq.
age_years only.age_years and age_sq.Store the curve's test MAE minus the line's test MAE, rounded to 2 decimals, in result. A positive number means the curve did worse.
import io
import pandas as pd
cars = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO("""car_id,age_years,km_driven_thousand,fuel,owners,price_lakh
1,5,32,Diesel,1,6.77
2,1,3,Petrol,1,8.59
3,2,11,Petrol,2,7.28
4,2,23,Petrol,1,7.17
5,4,37,Petrol,1,5.86
6,5,39,Diesel,1,6.68
7,6,74,Diesel,1,5.01
8,5,57,Diesel,1,6.00
9,7,68,Petrol,1,4.04
10,7,77,Diesel,2,4.41
11,3,37,Petrol,1,6.29
12,7,59,Petrol,3,4.12
13,1,11,Petrol,2,7.47
14,2,18,Petrol,1,7.34
15,11,113,Petrol,3,1.12
16,6,75,Diesel,1,5.24
17,7,77,Diesel,2,4.72
18,10,128,Petrol,1,2.01
19,1,3,Petrol,1,7.74
20,11,143,Diesel,2,2.17
21,8,95,Petrol,2,3.41
22,8,96,Petrol,1,3.27
23,3,46,Diesel,2,6.90
24,3,30,Petrol,1,7.01
25,1,17,Diesel,1,8.77
26,1,15,Petrol,1,8.07
27,11,101,Petrol,1,1.94
28,6,78,Petrol,1,4.17
29,11,136,Diesel,2,1.79
30,8,99,Petrol,2,3.11
31,5,56,Petrol,1,5.76
32,7,77,Petrol,1,4.60
33,5,60,Petrol,1,5.08
34,3,33,Diesel,1,7.18
35,2,29,Petrol,1,7.59
36,7,94,Diesel,1,4.62
37,6,57,Diesel,1,5.47
38,6,54,Diesel,1,5.88
39,3,38,Petrol,1,7.21
40,9,114,Petrol,2,2.84
41,9,125,Petrol,3,2.14
42,9,94,Petrol,1,2.47
43,11,97,Diesel,1,2.99
44,1,15,Diesel,1,9.08
45,10,90,Diesel,3,2.82
46,11,112,Petrol,2,1.03
47,4,44,Petrol,1,6.53
48,4,52,Petrol,1,6.23
49,2,19,Diesel,1,8.23
50,8,87,Diesel,1,4.03
51,2,34,Petrol,1,7.31
52,6,85,Diesel,2,5.18
53,8,87,Petrol,3,2.80
54,5,66,Diesel,1,6.06
55,11,104,Petrol,2,0.90
56,7,69,Petrol,1,4.79
57,9,126,Petrol,2,1.95
58,10,108,Petrol,1,2.34
59,5,67,Petrol,2,5.40
60,4,40,Petrol,2,6.04"""))Store your final answer in a variable named result.
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