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    This document contains two questions about using regression line equations to make predictions from data collected on students' lunchtime exercise and canteen spending. [1] The first question provides the regression equation and asks to predict exercise times from amounts spent, and vice versa. [2] The second question gives another regression equation relating student height and foot length, asking to predict values and noting that a prediction past the original data range may be unreliable. [3] It also asks to calculate an expected foot length given a student's height, based on the regression equation.

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    This document contains two questions about using regression line equations to make predictions from data collected on students' lunchtime exercise and canteen spending. [1] The first question provides the regression equation and asks to predict exercise times from amounts spent, and vice versa. [2] The second question gives another regression equation relating student height and foot length, asking to predict values and noting that a prediction past the original data range may be unreliable. [3] It also asks to calculate an expected foot length given a student's height, based on the regression equation.

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    Worksheet 2 Making Predictions With Regression Line Equations

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    This document contains two questions about using regression line equations to make predictions from data collected on students' lunchtime exercise and canteen spending. [1] The first question provides the regression equation and asks to predict exercise times from amounts spent, and vice versa. [2] The second question gives another regression equation relating student height and foot length, asking to predict values and noting that a prediction past the original data range may be unreliable. [3] It also asks to calculate an expected foot length given a student's height, based on the regression equation.

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    Worksheet 2: Making predictions with regression line equations

    Question 1
    In a particular week, 20 school students were asked to record the amount of money spent at the canteen
    (in dollars) and minutes of exercise during lunchtime (in minutes).

    The equation of the least squares regression line for this data is:

    minutes of exercise = 95.37 – 1.41 x amount of money spent

    Use the equation to predict:

    (a) The number of minutes of exercise, correct to 3 significant figures, of a student who spends:
    i. $16.50 at the canteen in a week

    ii. $35 at the canteen in a week

    iii. $50 at the canteen in a week

    iv. $60 at the canteen in a week

    (b) The amount of money spent, to the nearest cent, by a student who did:
    i. 30 minutes of exercise during lunchtime in a week

    ii. 75 minutes of exercise during lunchtime in a week

    ANSWERS
    (a) i. 72.1 minutes ii. 46.0 minutes iii. 24.9 minutes iv. 10.8 minutes
    (b) i. $46.36 ii. $14.45
    Question 2

    The equation of the least squares regression line is:

    a) If a year 12 student has a foot length of 28cm, how tall is this student predicted to be?

    b) The least squares regression line is used to predict the height of a student who has a foot length of
    18cm.
    i. How tall is this student predicted to be?

    ii. Explain why this prediction may be unreliable.

    c) A year 12 student is 175cm tall. Using the least squares equation, what foot length would we expect this
    student to have? Give your answer to four significant figures.

    ANSWERS:
    a) 177.4cm b) i. 164.4cm ii. Because a foot length of 18cm is
    outside the original data range (therefore this is extrapolation).
    c) 26.15cm

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