Read the following description of a data set.

Question

The president of a book club is concerned about the low attendance at the club's most recent book discussion. He wonders whether the considerable length of the book is to blame.
For each of the last few books that club members chose, the president notes the number of pages, x, as well as the number of people who attended the discussion, y.
The least squares regression line of this data set is:
y=
–
0.007x+22.475
Complete the following sentence:
If a book has one additional page, the least squares regression line predicts
fewer people will attend the discussion.

Answer 1

If a book has one additional page, the least squares regression line predicts that approximately 0.007 fewer people will attend the discussion.