Question

a researcher studied the relationship between the number of times a certain species of cricket will chirp in one minute and the temperature outside. her data is expressed in the scatter plot and line of best fit below. what does the slope of the line represent?

Explanation:

The x-axis is the number of cricket chirps per minute, and the y-axis is temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. The slope of a line of best fit represents the change in the y-variable for each 1-unit increase in the x-variable. Here, that means the increase in temperature corresponding to each additional cricket chirp per minute.

Answer:

The slope represents the approximate increase in temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) for each additional chirp the cricket makes per minute.