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Chapter 3: Q. 35 (page 191)
You use the same bar of soap to shower each morning. The bar weighs grams when it is new. Its weight goes down by grams per day on average. What is the equation of the regression line for predicting weight from days of use?
The equation is.
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Oil and residuals The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline is a tube that is formed from -inch-thick steel and carries oil across miles of sensitive arctic and subarctic terrain. The pipe segments and the welds that join them were carefully examined before installation. How accurate are field measurements of the depth of small defects? The figure below compares the results of measurements on defects made in the field with measurements of the same defects made in the laboratory. The line is drawn on the scatterplot.
(a) Describe the overall pattern you see in the scatterplot, as well as any deviations from that pattern.
(b) If field and laboratory measurements all agree, then the points should fall on the line drawn on the plot, except for small variations in the measurements. Is this the case? Explain.
(c) The line drawn on the scatterplot is not the least-squares regression line. How would the slope and intercept of the least-squares line compare? Justify your answer.
An eccentric professor believes that a child with an IQ should have a reading test score and that the reading score should increase by a point for every additional point of IQ. What is the equation of the professor鈥檚 regression line for predicting reading scores from IQ?
In a scatterplot of the average price of a barrel of oil and the average retail price of a gallon of gas, you expect to see.
(a) very little association.
(b) a weak negative association.
(c) a strong negative association.
(d) a weak positive association.
(e) a strong positive association.
Matching correlations Five scatterplots are shown below. Match each graph to the below that best describes it. (Some 鈥檚 will be left over.)
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A data set included the number of people per television set and the number of people per physician for countries. The Fathom screenshot below displays a scatterplot of the data with the least-squares regression line added. In Ethiopia, there were people per TV and people per doctor. What effect would remove this point have on the regression line?
(a) Slope would increase; intercept would increase.
(b) Slope would increase; intercept would decrease.
(c) Slope would decrease; intercept would increase.
(d) Slope would decrease; intercept would decrease.
(e) Slope and intercept would stay the same.
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