Mr. Dylan asks his students throughout the year to record the number of hours per week they spend practicing math at home. At the end of the year, he creates a scatter plot that models the relationship between exam score and time spent
practicing. Which line of best fit will give Mr. Dylan the most accurate linear equation in order to make predictions about
this relationship?

geometry: triangles

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

25.45584

  answer:

  write 548 as 500 + 40 + 8. multiply each addend by 5. then add the three products to get 2,740.