Question
Read the following description of a data set.
The owner of a bicycle store wonders if the employees who take the longest lunch breaks also make the fewest bicycle sales.
One day, he notes the length of each salesperson's lunch break (in minutes), x, as well as the number of bicycles he or she sold that day, y.
The least squares regression line of this data set is:
y=
–
0.029x+5.798
Complete the following sentence:
If a salesperson spends one additional minute at lunch, the least squares regression line predicts he or she will sell
fewer bicycles that day.
The owner of a bicycle store wonders if the employees who take the longest lunch breaks also make the fewest bicycle sales.
One day, he notes the length of each salesperson's lunch break (in minutes), x, as well as the number of bicycles he or she sold that day, y.
The least squares regression line of this data set is:
y=
–
0.029x+5.798
Complete the following sentence:
If a salesperson spends one additional minute at lunch, the least squares regression line predicts he or she will sell
fewer bicycles that day.
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If a salesperson spends one additional minute at lunch, the least squares regression line predicts he or she will sell **approximately 0.029 fewer bicycles** that day.