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Ms Fung's class has 10 students. Their scores for both classwork and the final exam are shown below. Both scores are out of 100.

Student Lin Jung Erika Non Chen Park Ploy Jai Fae Nit
Classwork 80 73 95 84 67 88 69 92 75 90
Final 74 62 93 75 73 81 58 90 Abs 84

Find the equation of the y on x regression line.

Important Questions on Modelling Relationships between Two Data Sets: Statistics for Bivariate Data

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Ms Fung's class has 10 students. Their scores for both classwork and the final exam are shown below. Both scores are out of 100.

Student Lin Jung Erika Non Chen Park Ploy Jai Fae Nit
Classwork 80 73 95 84 67 88 69 92 75 90
Final 74 62 93 75 73 81 58 90 Abs 84

Use the equation of the regression line to estimate Fae's score, had she been present for the final exam.

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Morgan records the length and height, in $\mathrm{cm}$, of each of seven cats.

Lengthcm 35 38 42 45 47 48 50
Heightcm 13 18 27 28 36 34 40

Find the value of $r$ for this data. Interpret the $r$ -value in this context.

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Morgan records the length and height, in cm, of each of seven cats.

Lengthcm 35 38 42 45 47 48 50
Heightcm 13 18 27 28 36 34 40

Find the equation of the y on x regression line. 

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Morgan records the length and height, in cm, of each of seven cats.

Lengthcm 35 38 42 45 47 48 50
Heightcm 13 18 27 28 36 34 40

Morgan's new cat has a length of 40 cm, but it would not stay still for long enough for its height to be measured.

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Morgan records the length and height, in $\mathrm{cm}$, of each of seven cats.

Lengthcm 35 38 42 45 47 48 50
Heightcm 13 18 27 28 36 34 40

interpret the meaning of the gradient in the equation of this regression line.

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At low tide, mud banks are exposed on both sides of a river. Sonny recorded the number of mudbugs at various distances from the river's edge.

Distance m 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 4
Number of mudbugs 30 28 14 18 10 7 1

Sonny uses his GDC to model the relationship between the variables by a regression equation of the form y=ax+b.
Write down the values of a and b.

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At low tide, mud banks are exposed on both sides of a river. Sonny recorded the number of mudbugs at various distances from the river's edge.

Distance m 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 4
Number of mudbugs 30 28 14 18 10 7 1

Sonny uses his GDC to model the relationship between the variables by a regression equation of the form y=ax+b.

Hence, estimate the number of mudbugs, to the nearest whole number, that are 3.5 m from the river's edge.

 

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At low tide, mud banks are exposed on both sides of a river. Sonny recorded the number of mudbugs at various distances from the river's edge.

Distance m 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 4
Number of mudbugs 30 28 14 18 10 7 1

Find Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient $(r)$ for this data.[Answer up to two decial values]