In the equation y = 7/8x + 11/2, the 7/8 represents the slope of the line of best fit. This means that for every 1 unit increase in the x variable, the y variable increases by 7/8 units.
The 11/2 represents the y-intercept of the line of best fit. This is the value of y when x = 0.
Scott planted a tomato seedling in a 5-gallon bucket and recorded its height at the end of each week. Scott made a scatter plot with the data, where x is the end of each week after the tomato seedling was planted and y is the height, in inches, of the tomato seedling. The equation that represents the line of best fit for the data is . What does the in this equation represent?
y=7/8x+11/2
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