Question

The city of Harmonville created a scatter plot to illustrate the number of robberies that have been reported there over the past several years.
Use linear regression to predict the number of reported robberies that occurred during 2006.

A.
1,000

B.
1,200

C.
1,400

D.
1,600

It looks like B (1,200) to me.

Answer 1

As can be clearly seen from the graph provided, the line of the linear regression passes through the point (2006, 1200). Thus, we can easily say, using linear regression, to predict the number of reported robberies that occurred during 2006 will be 1200.

Therefore, out of the given options, Option B is the correct option.