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document.write( "A student graphs some data, as shown in the scatterplot. He wants to use algebra to find an equation of a line that roughly fits the data. Which of the steps outlined here will allow him to do that?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A. He should eyeball fit a line by picking a slope and approximating a y-intercept.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "B. He should plug the data into his calculator and then use the STATS menu and conduct a quadratic regression.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "C.He should choose two points in the data that form a line. Find the slope between them and then write the equation in point-slope form.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "D.  He should choose two points in the data, find the slope between them, then plug the slope and one point into y = mx + b. That answer is his line. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Cannot access the scatter plot..BUT if looks as if a quadratic curve would<BR>\n" );
document.write( "best represent the data. ... Ans. B </SPAN>\n" );
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