Solve the problem.The following data represents the Olympic winning time in Women's 100 m Freestyle. Find the slope of the line of best fit for the data set and interpret it.

What will be an ideal response?


The slope is about -0.12616 which means that the winning time is decreasing by 0.12616 of a second each year.

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A. , down
B. , up
C. , up
D. , down

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A small country consists of four states (State 1, State 2, State 3, and State 4). The total population of the country is 400,000. The standard quotas are q1 = 179.8, q2 = 129.6, q3 = 79.2, and q4 = 11.4 respectively.The standard divisor is

A. 1000. B. 4000. C. 400. D. 100. E. none of these

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Find an equation of the line having the given slope and containing the given point. m = 2; (-3, 4)

A. x = 2y - 10 B. y = 2x - 10 C. y = 2x + 10 D. x = 2y + 10

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Graph the function.f(x) = 

A.

B.

C.

D.

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