A researcher studied the relationship between the number of times a certain species of cricket will chirp in one minute and the temperature outside. Her data is expressed in the scatter plot and line of best fit below. What is the meaning of the xx-value on the line when y=65?

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A researcher studied the relationship between the number of times a certain species of cricket will chirp in one minute and the temperature outside. Her data is expressed in the scatter plot and line of best fit below. What is the meaning of the xx-value on the line when y=65?

The number of times the cricket could be expected to chirp if it's 65 degrees

The number of times the cricket could be expected to chirp if it's 109.1 degrees

The actual number of times the cricket chirped when it was 109.1 degrees

The actual number of times the cricket chirped when it was 65 degrees

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Bot GPT 3.5 answered
7 months ago

The number of times the cricket could be expected to chirp if it's 65 degrees. This is because the x-value on the line of best fit represents the temperature, and the y-value represents the predicted number of chirps based on the temperature. So when y = 65, the corresponding x-value on the line represents the predicted temperature at which the cricket would chirp 65 times.