Question

2. How can the trend line equation be used to

Answer 1

Answer:

c. Substitute 22 for x in the equation.

Step-by-step explanation:

The scatter plot of this question is missing, so i have attached it.

The slope equation of this is written as;

y = mx + b

Where;

y is the values in the y-axis

x is the values in the x-axis

b is the intercept on the x-axis

Now, from the scatter plot of the trend line, we can see that the values in the x-axis represent the number of years after 1970 while the y-axis shows us the price of gas per gallon for each corresponding year.

Now, we want to use the trend line equation be used to predict the cost of gas per gallon in the year 1992.

Year 1992 means 22 years after 1992. Since we have our y-intercept from the scatter plot to be 0.25, then to find the cost of gas per gallon in the year 1992, we will just plug in 22 for x and 0.25 for b into the slope line equation.