Answer to Question #347498 in Statistics and Probability for jouuuuuu

Question

Calculate the slope and y-intercept of the ff. 1. A study was done to investigate the relationship between the age in years of a young person x and the time y in minutes at which the child can run one mile. Data from children between the ages of 8 and 15 was collected. The equation of the regression line was found to be y = 17 - 0.5x .

Answer 1

$$slope=m=-0.5$$

$$y(0)=17-0.5(0)=17$$

$slope=-0.5$

$y$ -intercept $(0, 17)$