Use the table to answer the question.

Question

Age Weight
Line of Best Fit:

y^=5.5x+16


Residual
8 61 ?
1
What is the value for y^
given the table?

(1 point)
Responses

59
59

68
68

70
70

60

Answer 1

To find the value of \( \hat{y} \) (the predicted weight) given the age of 8 years, we can use the line of best fit equation:

\[ \hat{y} = 5.5x + 16 \]

Here, \( x \) is the age, which is 8 in this case:

\[ \hat{y} = 5.5(8) + 16 \]

Now we calculate:

\[ \hat{y} = 44 + 16 = 60 \]

So, the value for \( \hat{y} \) is 60.