The developer of a new plant fertilizer gathered data about the quantity of fertilizer applied to a lemon tree and the number of lemons it

produced. He used a graphing tool to organize the data in a scatter plot and find the line of best fit.

He found that the relationship between grams of fertilizer, x, and the number of lemons, y, Is modeled by the equation y=0.316x + 12.214, and

the correlation coefficient for the data is 0.948.

Could this line of best fit be used to make reliable predictions?

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Colby

1 June, 01:17

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Nelson Stephens · Answer 1

Yes, because the slope of the line is closer to 0 than to 1, which indicates a strong association between the variables.