Read the following description and then complete the sentence that follows. A state's Department of Education is planning to change some school district boundaries to alleviate overcrowding at certain campuses. As a first step, the department put together a report on a sample of towns in the state. For each town in the sample, the report recorded its population (in thousands), x, and its number of schools, y.

Question

The least squares regression line of this data set is: y= 0.212x - 46.433

If a town had one thousand more people, the least squares regression line predicts that it would have _____ more schools.

-46.433
-0.212
0.212
46.433

Answer 1

0.212