SOLUTION: How do you write a prediction equation for data points shown in a scatter plot?

SOLUTION: How do you write a prediction equation for data points shown in a scatter plot?

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Question 323967: How do you write a prediction equation for data points shown in a scatter plot?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Same as you would for a line, although the symbols are different,

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where and are the means of the input data, are the sum of the squares of the x deviations, are the products of the x and y square deviation terms.

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