Women in the US House
2016.
- see last page. The table displays the number of
the US House of Representatives for selected years from 1988 through
Women in House
25
Year
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
12
16
20
24
28
104
a. Use your calculator OR EXCEL spreadsheet to find the line of best fit for these
data, where x is the number of years since 1988. Round coefficients to 4
decimal places if necessary. (See last page for calculator reference.)
b. What is the correlation coefficient, r? What does it mean in terms of whether
this line is a good fit for these data? Explain.
C. Write the slope of the line and explain what it means.
d. Use this equation to predict the number of women in the House of
Representatives in the year 2023.
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