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Mr. Palmer does an experiment to investigate the effects of distractions on studying and learning. He gives each participant a line with 10 words to memorize in 5 minutes. Some of the participants are interrupted during the 5 minutes with text messages from friends. The graph shows the number of words remembered after 5 minutes and the number of text messages sent to the participants as distractions.

A graph shows number of text messages labeled 1 to 10 on the horizontal axis and number of words on the vertical axis. A line decreases from 1 to 10.

According to the line of best fit, about how many words would a person remember after being distracted by 7 text messages?

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Answer: 5

Explanation: Read the line at 1 text (about 9 words) and at 10 texts (about 3 words). The drop is 6 words over 9 steps → 6/9 = 2/3 word per message. From 1 to 7 is 6 messages, so drop = 6 × 2/3 = 4. Thus 9 − 4 = 5 words.