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Lesson 2 Homework Practice

Lines of Best Fit
1. BALLOONS Salina is having a surprise party for her friend Ernie. The
table shows how many balloons she has been able to blow up by the end
of each 10-minute segment.
y
Time (min) 10 20 30 40 50 34
Balloons 3 12 15 16 21 32

Number of Balloons
28
a. Construct a scatter plot of the data. Then draw and 24
20
assess a line that seems to best represent the data.
16
12
8
b. Use the line of best fit to make a conjecture about the 4
number of balloons she will have blown up at the x
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
end of 70 minutes. Sample answer: 30 balloons
Time (min)

2. COMIC BOOKS Sidney is selling his comic book collection y

90
on the Internet. The scatter plot shows how many comic 80
books he has left at the end of each day.

Comic Books Left

70
60
a. Write an equation in slope-intercept form for the line 50
40
that is drawn.
30
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Sample answer: y = -10x + 90 20

10
b. Use the equation to make a conjecture about the x
number of comic books he will have at the end 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

of the seventh day. 20 comic books Days

3. ICE RINK Maury has an ice rink in his back yard. The Ice Thickness (in.)
scatter plot shows the thickness of the ice relative 0 1 2 3

to the temperature. x
-1
-2
a. Write an equation in slope-intercept form for the line -3
Temperature (°F)

that is drawn. -4
-5
Sample answer: y = - 3x -6
-7
b. Use the equation to make a conjecture about the
1 -8
− inches. -9
3 y
-7°F

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