Use the following table to answer the questions. (Give your answers correct to two decimal places.)

Question

x 1 1 3 3 5 5 7 7 9 9
y 3 2 6 1 3 3 3 2 5 3

(a) Find the equation of the line of best fit.
y hat = + x

(ii) Graph this equation on a scatter diagram. (Do this on paper. Your instructor may ask you to turn in this work.)

(b) Find the ordinates y hat for the points on the line of best fit whose abscissas are x = 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9.
1
3
5
7
9

(c) Find the value of e for each of the points above (e = y - y hat).
y e y e
3 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. . 3
2 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. . 3
6 2
1 5
3 3

(d) Find the variance se2 of those points about the line of best fit.

Answer 1

I do not want you to work them out, I just need help on formulas the ones in the book I do not understand so I was hoping there is a easier formula out there that someone might no of.