Question

The table shows the times of the gold, silver, and bronze medal winners for the men’s 100-meter race (in seconds) for 10 Olympic Games. Using the data points for 1992 and 2004, what is the BEST interpretation of the slope in context of this problem?

Answer 1

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The slope −0.0125 means that for each calendar year, the predicted mean race time for the top three medals decrease by 0.0125 seconds.