Graded A+ Sophia Statistics Unit 4 Milestone Complete Solved Solutions(Latest Version)

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You passed this Milestone 15 questions were answered correctly. 3 questions were answered incorrectly. 1 The table below shows the grade and reading level for 5 students. Grade Reading Level Stu... dent 1 2 6 Student 2 6 14 Student 3 5 12 Student 4 4 10 Student 5 1 4 For grade, the mean is 3.6 and the standard deviation is 2.1. For reading level, the mean is 9.2 and the standard deviation is 4.1. Using the formula below or Excel, find the correlation coefficient, r, for this set of students. Answer choices are rounded to the nearest hundredth. 1.00 0.85 0.71 0.92 RATIONALE In order to get the correlation, we can use the formula: Correlation can be quickly calculated by using Excel. Enter the values and use the function "=CORREL(". CONCEPT Correlation I need help with this question 2 This scatterplot shows the maintenance expense for a truck based on its years of service. The equation for least regression line to this data set is ŷ = 76.82x + 88.56. What is the predicted value (in dollars) for maintenance expenses when a truck is 7 years old? $549 $473 $626 $703 RATIONALE In order to get the predicted maintenance expense when the age of the truck is 7 years, we simply substitute the value 7 in our equation for x. So we can note that: CONCEPT Predictions from Best-Fit Lines I need help with this question 3 Raoul lives in Minneapolis and he is planning his spring break trip. He creates the scatterplot below to assess how much his trip will cost. Which answer choice correctly indicates the explanatory and response variables for the scatterplot? Explanatory variable: Distance Response variable: Cost Explanatory variable: Minneapolis Response variable: Miles flown Explanatory variable: Miles flown Response variable: Minneapolis Explanatory variable: Cost Response variable: Distance RATIONALE The explanatory variab [Show More]

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