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Intro-Stat, Math 203, Candy bar Quiz 2
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Archaeopteryx is an extinct beast having feathers like a bird but teeth
and a long bony tail like a reptile. The table below gives the lengths
(in centimeters) of two bones from each of 5 fossil specimens from these
beasts. Let X = length of the Femur bone and Y = length of the Humerus
bone. A scatterplot of the data is also given.
| X = Femur Length |
38 |
56 |
59 |
64 |
74 |
| Y = Humerus Length |
41 |
63 |
70 |
72 |
84 |
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Does the scatterplot show a positive or negative association?
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Do you think that the correlation, r, is
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close to -1
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negative but not too close to -1
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about zero
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positive but not too close to 1
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close to 1
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Find an equation for the least squares regression line.
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Use your regression equation to predict the length of the humerus, if the
femur is 50 cm long.