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2 years ago

Write an equation in slope-intercept form of the line that passed through (-3, 4) and (1. 4).

1 answer:

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The two points share the same y coordinate, which means that the line is horizontal, and this in turn means that the slope is 0.

Since a line written in slope-intercept form is

$y=mx+q$

In the case of m=0 the equation is

$y=q$

where the constant $q$ is the common y coordinate shared by all points.

So, in your case, the equation is

$y=4$

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The function is $y~=~12 ~-~ 0.5 \cdot x$ .

The slope is $m=-0.5$ .

The y-intercept is $b=12$ .

Step-by-step explanation:

Our aim is to calculate the values m (slope) and b (y-intercept) in the equation of a line :

$y=mx+b$

We have the following data:

$\begin{array}{c|cccc}x&2&4&6&12\\y&11&10&9&6\end{array}$

To find the line of best fit for the points given, you must:

Step 1: Find $X\cdot Y$ and $X\cdot X$ as it was done in the table below.

Step 2: Find the sum of every column:

$\sum{X} = 24 ~,~ \sum{Y} = 36 ~,~ \sum{X \cdot Y} = 188 ~,~ \sum{X^2} = 200$

Step 3: Use the following equations to find b and m:

$\begin{aligned} b &= \frac{\sum{Y} \cdot \sum{X^2} - \sum{X} \cdot \sum{XY} }{n \cdot \sum{X^2} - \left(\sum{X}\right)^2} = \frac{ 36 \cdot 200 - 24 \cdot 188}{ 4 \cdot 200 - 24^2} \approx 12 \\ \\m &= \frac{ n \cdot \sum{XY} - \sum{X} \cdot \sum{Y}}{n \cdot \sum{X^2} - \left(\sum{X}\right)^2} = \frac{ 4 \cdot 188 - 24 \cdot 36 }{ 4 \cdot 200 - \left( 24 \right)^2} \approx -0.5\end{aligned}$

Step 4: Assemble the equation of a line

$\begin{aligned} y~&=~b ~+~ m \cdot x \\y~&=~12 ~-~ 0.5 \cdot x\end{aligned}$

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Assume that the population of human body temperatures has a mean of 98.6 degrees F and a standard deviation of 0.62 degrees F. I

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Answer:

0% probability of getting a mean temperature of 98.2 degrees F or lower.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Central Limit Theorem estabilishes that, for a random variable X, with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\sigma$ , a large sample size can be approximated to a normal distribution with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$ .

Normal probability distribution

Problems of normally distributed samples can be solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\sigma$ , the zscore of a measure X is given by:

$Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}$

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

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$\mu = 98.6, \sigma = 0.62, n = 106, s = \frac{0.62}{\sqrt{106}} = 0.06$