Read the following description of a data set.Naomi 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, x, as well as the weight of the coffee (in grams), y, used to make the cup he or she liked best.The least squares regression line of this data set is:y=0.743x+36.386Complete the following sentence:The 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.
Q. Read the following description of a data set.Naomi 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, x, as well as the weight of the coffee (in grams), y, used to make the cup he or she liked best.The least squares regression line of this data set is:y=0.743x+36.386Complete the following sentence:The 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.
Identify Slope: Identify the slope of the regression line. The slope of the regression line is the coefficient of the independent variable x, which represents age in this case. The slope indicates how much the dependent variable y, which represents the weight of the coffee, changes for each unit increase in x. In the equation y=0.743x+36.386, the slope is 0.743.
Interpret Slope: Interpret the slope.The slope of 0.743 means that for each additional year of age (each increase by 1 in x), the weight of the coffee (y) that the subject prefers increases by 0.743 grams.
Check for Errors: Check for any mathematical errors.There are no mathematical errors in the interpretation of the slope as the change in y for each unit increase in x.