Question

Raquel throws darts at a coordinate grid centered at the origin. Her goal is to create a line of darts. Her darts actually hit the coordinate grid at (–5, 0), (1, –3), (4, 5), (–8, –6), (0, 2), and (9, 6). Which equation best approximates the line of best fit of the darts? y = 0.6x + 0.6 y = 0.1x + 0.8 y = 0.8x + 0.1 y = 0.5x + 0.6

Answer 1

The correct answer is the first option, y = 0.6x + 0.6. When the line of best fit is drawn, the slope can be solved by the formula m=Δy/Δx, where Δy is the difference between two y-coordinates and Δx the difference between two x-coordinates. The y-intercept is the value at which the line coincides with the y-axis (x=0).

Answer 2

The points at which Raquel Darts hit the coordinate grid having center at the origin are (–5, 0), (1, –3), (4, 5), (–8, –6), (0, 2), and (9, 6).

As we can see that not all points are collinear.

As line of best fit is the the line which passes through some points , may be not through the single point, or all the points.

Plotting all the options on coordinate grid i.e on a scatter plot and then determining , the line of best fit of the darts is

y= 0.6 x + 0.6 →→Option (A), the reason being it passes through a point (9,6).