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Read the following description of a data set.\newlineNaomi is a food scientist interested in whether bitter flavors, like coffee, become more tolerable as people get older. She sets up a study in which subjects taste cups of coffee with varying intensities.Naomi then writes down the age of each subject, xx, as well as the weight of the coffee (in grams), yy, used to make the cup he or she liked best.The least squares regression line of this data set is:y=0.743x+36.386y = 0.743x + 36.386\newlineComplete the following sentence:\newlineThe least squares regression line predicts that if a subject is one year older, he or she prefers an additional ___ grams of coffee in their ideal cup.

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Q. Read the following description of a data set.\newlineNaomi is a food scientist interested in whether bitter flavors, like coffee, become more tolerable as people get older. She sets up a study in which subjects taste cups of coffee with varying intensities.Naomi then writes down the age of each subject, xx, as well as the weight of the coffee (in grams), yy, used to make the cup he or she liked best.The least squares regression line of this data set is:y=0.743x+36.386y = 0.743x + 36.386\newlineComplete the following sentence:\newlineThe least squares regression line predicts that if a subject is one year older, he or she prefers an additional ___ grams of coffee in their ideal cup.
  1. Identify Slope: Identify the slope of the regression line. The slope of the regression line is the coefficient of the independent variable xx, which represents age in this case. The slope indicates how much the dependent variable yy, which represents the weight of the coffee, changes for each unit increase in xx. In the equation y=0.743x+36.386y = 0.743x + 36.386, the slope is 0.7430.743.
  2. Interpret Slope: Interpret the slope.\newlineThe slope of 0.7430.743 means that for each additional year of age (each increase by 11 in xx), the weight of the coffee (yy) that the subject prefers increases by 0.7430.743 grams.
  3. Check for Errors: Check for any mathematical errors.\newlineThere are no mathematical errors in the interpretation of the slope as the change in yy for each unit increase in xx.

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