Question

WILL GIVE 30 points a scatter plot and a possible line of best fit is shown is the line of best fit accurate for the data shown 1. Yes because it touches the y-axis 2. Yes because it passes through the center of data points 3. No because the line does not touch any points 4. No because the line should touch every point

Answer 1

It passes through the center of the points. (2)
When doing a line of best fit, you want the line to have equal number of points on either side of the line.

Answer 2

The correct option is 2) Yes because it passes through the center of data points.

Explanation:

Consider the provided graph shown in the figure.

A scatter plot is a possible line which may or may not actually pass through the points but it best fit on the provided data set.

It requires 2 sets of data where the first one(x) is independent and the second data is dependent(y)

It is mathematical diagram that plots pairs of data on x and y axis in order to identity the relationship between the data sets.

Now consider the provided scatter plot.

The line passes through the center of the data points and best fit in order to visualize the strength of correlation.

Hence, the correct option is 2) Yes because it passes through the center of data points.