The annual profits for a company are given in the following table, where x represents the number of years since 1998, and y represents the profit in thousands of dollars.
Write the linear regression equation that represents this set of data, rounding all
coefficients to the nearest hundredth. Using this equation, find the projected profit
(in thousands of dollars) for 2006, rounded to the nearest thousand dollars.
Years since 1998 (x)
Profits (y)
(in thousands of dollars)
0
72
1
84
2
104
3
156

Max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.