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The slope of this regression line is 0.8 .What does this tell you about the relationship between the amount of fertilizer and the height of the seedlings?

The slope of this regression line is 0.8 .What does this tell you about the relationship-example-1
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The slope of a line shows the relation between a unitary increment in the x-variable and the corresponding change in the y-variable.

In this case, the x-variable represents the amount of fertilizer, in grams, and the y-variable represents the height of the seedings, in cm.

Then, the slope of 0.8 means that when the x-variable increases in 1 unit, the y-variable increases 0.8 units. Or more specifically, for each additional gram of fertilizer used, the height of the seedings increases by about 0.8 cm on average.

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