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Peter attempted to use the divide-center method to find the line of best fit on a scatterplot.

On a graph, points are grouped together and increase. A vertical dotted line goes through the points. There are 4 points to the left of the line, and 6 points to the right.

What was his mistake?

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other guys answer is what i was gonna say
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Answer:

He had a different number of points to the left of the vertical line than to the right of the vertical line.

Explanation:

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