SOLUTION: You have data on weekly rainfall at a New Zealand beauty spot and also on the number of tourists who visit the beauty spot each week. You plan to carry out a simple regression a

Question 1122171: You have data on weekly rainfall at a New Zealand beauty spot and also on the number of tourists who visit the beauty spot each week.
You plan to carry out a simple regression analysis as part of an investigation to see if weekly rainfall is useful for predicting the number of tourists visiting the beauty spot.
What is the y variable (also known as the response variable or the dependent variable) and what is the x variable (the explanatory variable or the predictor variable)?
The y variable (response variable) will be
Answer 1
The x variable (predictor variable) will be
Answer 2
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Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The rainfall is the predictor variable or independent variable, driving the response variable.
The number of tourists is the response variable, and dependent upon the rainfall (per the hypothesis).
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