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*SHOW WORK PLEASE* The following is a scatterplot of the average liters of alcoh

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Question

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The following is a scatterplot of the average liters of alcohol from drinking wine (per person), and the death rates from heart disease (per 100,000 people) for each of 19 countries. The least-squares regression line has been drawn in on the plot.

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300 250 200 150 Alcohol from Drinking Wine Based on the least-squares regression line we would predict that in a country where, per person, an average of 7 liters of alcohol from wine is consumed, the death rate from heart disease per 100,000 people would be about: a. 50. b. 100. c. 260 d. 700.

Explanation / Answer

We see that the 7 litres correspond to the death rate of 100 from the regression line..Thus the correct answer is b