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

I would say 2. As the line of best fit is supposed to represent the average of all the data points. It's not nessecarily needed to go through every point.

Answer 2

The correct statement about the scatter plot is:

2. Yes because it passes through the center of data points

Explanation:

We know that a line of best fit or trend line is a line that gives the best estimation of the data points and represents the data approximately.

It may pass through some, all or none of the data points.

Here we are given a line of best fit that passes through 1 data point and also it has a y-intercept.

Also, the data points lie closely to the line of best fit.

Hence, the correct option is:

2. Yes because it passes through the center of data points.