Line of Best Fit and Correlation Coefficient

The table shows the height of a tree for various years after it was planted. Using the line of best fit, how tall would the tree be 30 years after it was planted?

• 22 feet

• 23 feet

• 36 feet

• 37 feet

find line of best fit using calculator through these points (0,0)(1,2) (3,5) (6,7)

• y=65x+7

• y=1.14x+.64

• y=1.5x+64

What is the line of best fit?

• f(x)= 5x+1.82

• cannot be determined

• f(x)= 1.82x + 5.02

• f(x)= 1.1x + 4.2

Determine the Correlation Coefficient and decide whether it is weak, moderate, or strong.

• 0.07 weak

• -0.26 weak

• -0.26 moderate

• 0.07 strong

A perfect positive correlation has a correlation coefficient of ____. 

• 1

• -1

• 0

What can we determine from the correlation coefficient? 

• Style + Type

• Percentage + Direction

• Strength + Direction

• Strength + Style

Which graph has a correlation coefficient (r) of about -.6 ?

• a

• b

• c

• d

What is a line of best fit used for?

• To make predictions

• To make the graph look pretty

• To connect the points

• To make it look like you know what you are doing

This measures how strong or weak the relationship between 2 quantitative variables are.

• Scatter Plot

• Causation

• Correlation

• Line of best fit

What does the value, r= -0.89, tell us about the linear relationship of two quantitative variables?

• Strong positive

• Weak positive

• Strong negative

• Weak negative