The table shows the temperature (in degrees) for eight consecutive days as well as the respective number of ice cream cones an ice cream shop sold on each of these days.

Temperature: 68, 77, 83, 85, 89, 94, 96, 99
number of cones: 403, 447, 457, 465, 489, 503, 543, 576

About how many ice cream cones woud you expect the shop to sell if the temperature one day is 106 degrees? Find a line of best fit for this data and use it to make your prediction.

A. 579
B. 585
C. 602
D. 617

6 answers

Sooooo nobody gone hep me??
Patience is a virtue!

Your type of question is not easy to answer in this type of format, but surely
if you are asked this question by your teacher you must have learned some
kind of method to solve it. There are many ways, some very rigorous, some
rather straightforward.
Here is a video, in a rather boring presentation, that shows what you should do.
Too bad your data values are rather large numbers, so plotting them will
require some estimation right off the start.
good luck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugmhjwAQDIE
chill dang
For anyone wanting to know in the future, its B: 585 cones.
Three years later. Thank you Sksksksk
You're welcome! It's never too late to get an answer.