Line of Best Fit Answers

Rob is investigating the effects of font size on the number of words that fit on a page. He changes the font size on an essay and records the number of words on one page of the essay. The table shows his data.Which equation represents the approximate line of best fit for data, where x represents font size and y represents the number of words on one page?

The table shows the ages and weights of babies at a hospital.What is the correlation between age and weight as shown in the table?

Latitude and longitude describe locations on the Earth with respect to the equator and prime meridian. The table shows the latitude and daily high temperatures on the first day of spring for different locations with the same longitude.Which statement describes the slope of the line of best fit for the data?

A line of best fit is f(x) ≈ −0.86x + 13.5 for the set of points in the table.

Teddy is preparing to sell some wooden blocks at a garage sale. Before pricing individual bags of blocks, he decides to determine the approximate number of blocks per pound by researching the weights of different sets of blocks. The graph shows his data.