An owner of a home in the Midwest installed solar panels to reduce heating costs. After installing the solar panels, he measured the amount of natural gas use y (in cubic feet) to heat the home and outside temperature x (in degree-days, where a day’s degree-days are the number of degrees its average temperature falls below 65F) over a 23-month period. He then computed the least squares regression line for predicting y from x and found it to be, ŷ=85+16x How much, on average, does gas used increase for each additional degree-day? The predicted amount of gas used when the outside temperature is 20 degree- days.
An owner of a home in the Midwest installed solar panels to reduce heating costs. After installing the solar panels, he measured the amount of natural gas use y (in cubic feet) to heat the home and outside temperature x (in degree-days, where a day’s degree-days are the number of degrees its average temperature falls below 65F) over a 23-month period. He then computed the least squares regression line for predicting y from x and found it to be, ŷ=85+16x How much, on average, does gas used increase for each additional degree-day? The predicted amount of gas used when the outside temperature is 20 degree- days.
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An owner of a home in the Midwest installed solar panels to reduce heating costs. After installing the solar panels, he measured the amount of natural gas use y (in cubic feet) to heat the home and outside temperature x (in degree-days, where a day’s degree-days are the number of degrees its average temperature falls below 65F) over a 23-month period. He then computed the least squares regression line for predicting y from x and found it to be,
ŷ=85+16x
How much, on average, does gas used increase for each additional degree-day?
The predicted amount of gas used when the outside temperature is 20 degree-
days.
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